Local time · Birmingham
What time is it in Birmingham, Alabama?
3:49:47AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 196,357
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Birmingham
Birmingham is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Birmingham sits at 33.53°N, 86.80°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Birmingham.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Birmingham it is highest at 11:31 am today — 29 minutes before clock noon.
At 86.8°W, Birmingham sits 13 minutes of solar time east of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 13 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Birmingham today
- Sunrise
- 6:17 am
- Sunset
- 4:45 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 29 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 23 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 29 minutes in Birmingham, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 27 minutes, from 14 hours 23 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 56 minutes in December.
At 33.5°N that puts Birmingham between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.