What time is it in Abilene, Texas?
7:03:26 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
- 130,501
Daylight saving in Abilene
Abilene is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Abilene sits at 32.45°N, 99.74°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Abilene.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Abilene it is highest at 1:30 pm today — 90 minutes after clock noon.
At 99.7°W, Abilene sits well toward the western edge of its zone, which is why the sun stays up later here than the clock suggests. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in Abilene today
- Sunrise
- 7:29 am
- Sunset
- 7:31 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 17 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Abilene, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 16 minutes, from 14 hours 17 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 1 minute in December.
At 32.5°N that puts Abilene between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.