Local time · Oxford
What time is it in Oxford, Mississippi?
3:50:43AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 26,801
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Oxford
Oxford is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Oxford sits at 34.35°N, 89.54°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Oxford.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Oxford it is highest at 11:42 am today — 18 minutes before clock noon.
At 89.5°W, Oxford sits almost exactly on Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in Oxford today
- Sunrise
- 6:29 am
- Sunset
- 4:55 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 25 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 27 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 25 minutes in Oxford, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 36 minutes, from 14 hours 27 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 51 minutes in December.
At 34.4°N that puts Oxford between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.