What time is it in Columbia, Tennessee?
7:05:04 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Central Daylight Time, UTC−5:00.
- Time zone
- Central Daylight Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−5:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Population
- 48,812
Daylight saving in Columbia
Columbia is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Columbia sits at 35.63°N, 87.04°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Columbia.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Columbia it is highest at 12:39 pm today — 39 minutes after clock noon.
At 87.0°W, Columbia sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in Columbia today
- Sunrise
- 6:38 am
- Sunset
- 6:40 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 34 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Columbia, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 50 minutes, from 14 hours 34 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 45 minutes in December.
At 35.6°N that puts Columbia between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.