Local time · Tuscaloosa
What time is it in Tuscaloosa, Alabama?
3:50:56AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 114,288
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Tuscaloosa
Tuscaloosa is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Tuscaloosa sits at 33.23°N, 87.53°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Tuscaloosa.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Tuscaloosa it is highest at 11:34 am today — 26 minutes before clock noon.
At 87.5°W, Tuscaloosa sits 10 minutes of solar time east of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 10 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Tuscaloosa today
- Sunrise
- 6:19 am
- Sunset
- 4:49 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 30 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 21 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 30 minutes in Tuscaloosa, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 24 minutes, from 14 hours 21 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 57 minutes in December.
At 33.2°N that puts Tuscaloosa between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.