What time is it in Brenham, Texas?
7:03:39 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
- 19,728
Daylight saving in Brenham
Brenham is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Brenham sits at 30.16°N, 96.40°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Brenham.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Brenham it is highest at 1:17 pm today — 77 minutes after clock noon.
At 96.4°W, Brenham 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 Brenham today
- Sunrise
- 7:15 am
- Sunset
- 7:18 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 5 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Brenham, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 53 minutes, from 14 hours 5 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 12 minutes in December.
At 30.2°N that puts Brenham between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.