Local time · Huntsville
What time is it in Huntsville, Alabama?
3:51:11AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 230,402
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Huntsville
Huntsville is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Huntsville sits at 34.70°N, 86.68°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Huntsville.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Huntsville it is highest at 11:30 am today — 30 minutes before clock noon.
At 86.7°W, Huntsville 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 Huntsville today
- Sunrise
- 6:18 am
- Sunset
- 4:43 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 24 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 29 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 24 minutes in Huntsville, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 40 minutes, from 14 hours 29 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 50 minutes in December.
At 34.7°N that puts Huntsville between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.