| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +5h | Becomes +4h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +6h | Becomes +5h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +8h | Becomes +9h on 1 Nov |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +13h | Becomes +14h on 1 Nov |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +14h | Becomes +15h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | ±0h | |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −3h | Becomes −2h on 31 Oct |
Charlotte, United States runs on UTC−4. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−5 in winter, UTC−4 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. Charlotte and New York currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in Charlotte lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Charlotte and London is 5 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–13:00 in Charlotte lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Charlotte and Tokyo is 13 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with Tokyo, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Toronto, Havana, Washington DC. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Charlotte.
Charlotte (United States) is home to roughly 880K people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:17, sunset at 19:09. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−5 in winter, UTC−4 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 35° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
United States
Capital
Washington DC
Continent
North America
Time Zone
EDT · America/New_York
Coordinates
35.23°N, 80.84°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
Charlotte holds the headquarters of one of the largest US banks and ranks second only to New York in American banking assets. Before that it was a gold town — the first US gold rush started nearby in 1799, half a century before California.
The clock: Charlotte keeps Eastern Time and sits well west of the zone's 75° meridian, which pushes its summer sunsets past 20:40.
Charlotte lies at 80.8°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The 5.8° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 23 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:23 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 83 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:23.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 32m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 47m. The swing between them is 4h 45m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Charlotte the sun comes up earliest on 14 June at 06:08, while the latest sunset waits until 30 June at 20:42. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Charlotte that civil twilight runs about 25 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 30 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Charlotte, United States is America/New_York with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Charlotte has an estimated population of 880K and is located at coordinates 35.23°N, 80.84°W.
Charlotte gets 14h 32m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 47m on its shortest, averaging 12h 11m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Charlotte falls at about 12:23 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 5.8° from the meridian its zone is built on.
America's Second Banking Centre: Charlotte holds the headquarters of one of the largest US banks and ranks second only to New York in American banking assets.