Local time · Mobile
What time is it in Mobile, Alabama?
3:48:42AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 201,367
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Mobile
Mobile is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Mobile sits at 30.67°N, 88.11°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Mobile.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Mobile it is highest at 11:36 am today — 24 minutes before clock noon.
At 88.1°W, Mobile sits 8 minutes of solar time east of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 8 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Mobile today
- Sunrise
- 6:17 am
- Sunset
- 4:56 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 39 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 8 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 39 minutes in Mobile, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 58 minutes, from 14 hours 8 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 10 minutes in December.
At 30.7°N that puts Mobile between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.