Local time · Memphis
What time is it in Memphis, Tennessee?
3:49:45AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 610,919
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Memphis
Memphis is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Memphis sits at 35.11°N, 89.97°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Memphis.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Memphis it is highest at 11:44 am today — 16 minutes before clock noon.
At 90.0°W, Memphis sits almost exactly on Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in Memphis today
- Sunrise
- 6:32 am
- Sunset
- 4:55 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 22 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 31 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 22 minutes in Memphis, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 44 minutes, from 14 hours 31 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 47 minutes in December.
At 35.1°N that puts Memphis between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.