What time is it in Austin, Texas?
7:52:24 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
- 993,588
Daylight saving in Austin
Austin is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 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 Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Austin it is highest at 1:22 pm today — 82 minutes after clock noon.
At 97.8°W, Austin 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 Austin today
- Sunrise
- 7:21 am
- Sunset
- 7:23 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 6 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Austin, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes 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.