Local time · Van Buren
What time is it in Van Buren, Arkansas?
3:50:37AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 24,396
- City proper
Around the world
About this clock
Daylight saving in Van Buren
Van Buren is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Van Buren sits at 35.45°N, 94.35°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Van Buren.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Van Buren it is highest at 12:01 pm today — 1 minutes after clock noon.
At 94.4°W, Van Buren 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 Van Buren today
- Sunrise
- 6:51 am
- Sunset
- 5:12 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 21 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 33 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 21 minutes in Van Buren, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 48 minutes, from 14 hours 33 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 46 minutes in December.
At 35.5°N that puts Van Buren between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.