What time is it in Pelham, Alabama?
7:52:54 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Central Daylight Time, UTC−5:00.
- Time zone
- Central Daylight Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−5:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Population
- 25,396
Daylight saving in Pelham
Pelham is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Pelham sits at 33.32°N, 86.74°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Pelham.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Pelham it is highest at 12:38 pm today — 38 minutes after clock noon.
At 86.7°W, Pelham sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in Pelham today
- Sunrise
- 6:37 am
- Sunset
- 6:39 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 22 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Pelham, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 25 minutes, from 14 hours 22 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 57 minutes in December.
At 33.3°N that puts Pelham between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.