What time is it in Ponca City, Oklahoma?

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

Ponca City sits at 36.72°N, 97.07°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Ponca City.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Ponca City it is highest at 1:19 pm today — 79 minutes after clock noon.

At 97.1°W, Ponca City 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 Ponca City, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 2 minutes, from 14 hours 41 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 39 minutes in December.

At 36.7°N that puts Ponca City between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.