Local time · Austin
What time is it in Austin, Texas?
3:48:52AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 993,588
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Austin
Austin is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Austin sits at 30.30°N, 97.75°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Austin.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Austin it is highest at 12:15 pm today — 15 minutes after clock noon.
At 97.8°W, Austin sits 31 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 31 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Austin today
- Sunrise
- 6:55 am
- Sunset
- 5:35 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 40 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 6 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 40 minutes in Austin, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 55 minutes, from 14 hours 6 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 11 minutes in December.
At 30.3°N that puts Austin between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.