What time is it in Cookeville, Tennessee?
7:05:15 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
- 37,102
Daylight saving in Cookeville
Cookeville is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Cookeville sits at 36.15°N, 85.51°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Cookeville.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Cookeville it is highest at 12:33 pm today — 33 minutes after clock noon.
At 85.5°W, Cookeville sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in Cookeville today
- Sunrise
- 6:32 am
- Sunset
- 6:34 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 37 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Cookeville, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 55 minutes, from 14 hours 37 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 42 minutes in December.
At 36.1°N that puts Cookeville between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.