What time is it in Killeen, Texas?
7:53:36 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
- 160,616
Daylight saving in Killeen
Killeen is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Killeen sits at 31.08°N, 97.73°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Killeen.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Killeen it is highest at 1:22 pm today — 82 minutes after clock noon.
At 97.7°W, Killeen 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 Killeen today
- Sunrise
- 7:21 am
- Sunset
- 7:23 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 10 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Killeen, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 2 minutes, from 14 hours 10 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 8 minutes in December.
At 31.1°N that puts Killeen between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.