Local time · Bessemer
What time is it in Bessemer, Alabama?
3:50:26AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 25,079
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Bessemer
Bessemer is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Bessemer sits at 33.37°N, 86.97°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Bessemer.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Bessemer it is highest at 11:32 am today — 28 minutes before clock noon.
At 87.0°W, Bessemer sits 12 minutes of solar time east of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 12 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Bessemer today
- Sunrise
- 6:17 am
- Sunset
- 4:46 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 29 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 22 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 29 minutes in Bessemer, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 26 minutes, from 14 hours 22 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 56 minutes in December.
At 33.4°N that puts Bessemer between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.