Local time · Brownsville
What time is it in Brownsville, Texas?
3:50:00AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 191,967
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Brownsville
Brownsville is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 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 Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Brownsville it is highest at 12:14 pm today — 14 minutes after clock noon.
At 97.5°W, Brownsville sits 30 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 30 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Brownsville today
- Sunrise
- 6:46 am
- Sunset
- 5:41 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 55 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 46 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 55 minutes in Brownsville, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute 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.