What time is it in Brownsville, Texas?
7:04:26 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
- 191,967
Daylight saving in Brownsville
Brownsville is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Brownsville sits at 25.99°N, 97.48°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Brownsville.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Brownsville it is highest at 1:21 pm today — 81 minutes after clock noon.
At 97.5°W, Brownsville 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 Brownsville today
- Sunrise
- 7:19 am
- Sunset
- 7:23 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 46 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Brownsville, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 15 minutes, from 13 hours 46 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 31 minutes in December.
At 26.0°N that puts Brownsville between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.