Local time · El Paso
What time is it in El Paso, Texas?
2:49:20AM
- Time zone
- MST
- America/Denver
- UTC offset
- −7:00
- Standard is −7:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 681,723
- City proper
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About this clock
El Paso does not keep Texas's usual time
Most of Texas is on Central Standard Time, but El Paso keeps Mountain Standard Time — 1 hour behind the rest of the state. This is the kind of thing that catches people out, and it is why the zone is resolved from the city’s own coordinates rather than assumed from the state.
El Paso is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
El Paso sits at 31.85°N, 106.43°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in El Paso.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over El Paso it is highest at 11:50 am today — 10 minutes before clock noon.
At 106.4°W, El Paso sits almost exactly on Mountain Standard Time’s 105° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in El Paso today
- Sunrise
- 6:32 am
- Sunset
- 5:07 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 35 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 14 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 35 minutes in El Paso, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 10 minutes, from 14 hours 14 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 4 minutes in December.
At 31.8°N that puts El Paso between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.