Local time · Pelham
What time is it in Pelham, Alabama?
3:49:01AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 25,396
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Pelham
Pelham is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 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 Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Pelham it is highest at 11:31 am today — 29 minutes before clock noon.
At 86.7°W, Pelham 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 Pelham today
- Sunrise
- 6:16 am
- Sunset
- 4:45 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 29 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 22 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 29 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.