Local time · Denton
What time is it in Denton, Texas?
3:48:43AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 165,998
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Denton
Denton is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Denton sits at 33.22°N, 97.14°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Denton.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Denton it is highest at 12:12 pm today — 12 minutes after clock noon.
At 97.1°W, Denton sits 29 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 29 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Denton today
- Sunrise
- 6:58 am
- Sunset
- 5:27 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 30 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 21 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 30 minutes in Denton, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 24 minutes, from 14 hours 21 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 57 minutes in December.
At 33.2°N that puts Denton between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.