What time is it in Fate, Texas?
7:03:28 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
- 27,467
Daylight saving in Fate
Fate is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Fate sits at 32.95°N, 96.38°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Fate.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Fate it is highest at 1:17 pm today — 77 minutes after clock noon.
At 96.4°W, Fate 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 Fate today
- Sunrise
- 7:15 am
- Sunset
- 7:18 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 20 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Fate, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 21 minutes, from 14 hours 20 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 58 minutes in December.
At 32.9°N that puts Fate between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.