Local time · Fort Smith
What time is it in Fort Smith, Arkansas?
3:50:17AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 90,507
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Fort Smith
Fort Smith is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Fort Smith sits at 35.35°N, 94.37°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Fort Smith.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Fort Smith it is highest at 12:01 pm today — 1 minutes after clock noon.
At 94.4°W, Fort Smith sits 17 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 17 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Fort Smith today
- Sunrise
- 6:50 am
- Sunset
- 5:12 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 22 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 33 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 22 minutes in Fort Smith, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 47 minutes, from 14 hours 33 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 46 minutes in December.
At 35.3°N that puts Fort Smith between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.