What time is it in Starkville, Mississippi?

Starkville is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.

Starkville sits at 33.46°N, 88.83°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Starkville.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Starkville it is highest at 12:46 pm today — 46 minutes after clock noon.

At 88.8°W, Starkville sits well toward the western edge of its zone, which is why the sun stays up later here than the clock suggests. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.

Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Starkville, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 26 minutes, from 14 hours 22 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 56 minutes in December.

At 33.5°N that puts Starkville between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.