What time is it in Fort Worth, Texas?
7:04:25 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
- 1,008,106
Daylight saving in Fort Worth
Fort Worth is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Fort Worth sits at 32.78°N, 97.35°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Fort Worth.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Fort Worth it is highest at 1:20 pm today — 80 minutes after clock noon.
At 97.3°W, Fort Worth 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 Fort Worth today
- Sunrise
- 7:19 am
- Sunset
- 7:22 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 19 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Fort Worth, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 19 minutes, from 14 hours 19 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 59 minutes in December.
At 32.8°N that puts Fort Worth between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.