Local time · Franklin
What time is it in Franklin, Tennessee?
3:50:08AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 89,142
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Franklin
Franklin is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Franklin sits at 35.91°N, 86.85°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Franklin.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Franklin it is highest at 11:31 am today — 29 minutes before clock noon.
At 86.9°W, Franklin sits 13 minutes of solar time east of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 13 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Franklin today
- Sunrise
- 6:22 am
- Sunset
- 4:41 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 19 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 36 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 19 minutes in Franklin, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 53 minutes, from 14 hours 36 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 43 minutes in December.
At 35.9°N that puts Franklin between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.