Local time · Nashville
What time is it in Nashville, Tennessee?
3:50:55AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 704,963
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Nashville
Nashville is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Nashville sits at 36.17°N, 86.79°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Nashville.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Nashville it is highest at 11:31 am today — 29 minutes before clock noon.
At 86.8°W, Nashville 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 Nashville today
- Sunrise
- 6:22 am
- Sunset
- 4:40 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 18 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 37 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 18 minutes in Nashville, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 56 minutes, from 14 hours 37 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 42 minutes in December.
At 36.2°N that puts Nashville between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.