Local time · Dallas
What time is it in Dallas, Texas?
3:49:20AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 1,326,087
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Dallas
Dallas is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Dallas sits at 32.79°N, 96.77°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Dallas.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Dallas it is highest at 12:11 pm today — 11 minutes after clock noon.
At 96.8°W, Dallas sits 27 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 27 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Dallas today
- Sunrise
- 6:55 am
- Sunset
- 5:26 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 31 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 19 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 31 minutes in Dallas, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 20 minutes, from 14 hours 19 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 59 minutes in December.
At 32.8°N that puts Dallas between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.