Local time · Lancaster
What time is it in Lancaster, Texas?
3:48:48AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 40,780
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Lancaster
Lancaster is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Lancaster sits at 32.60°N, 96.77°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Lancaster.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Lancaster it is highest at 12:11 pm today — 11 minutes after clock noon.
At 96.8°W, Lancaster sits 27 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 27 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Lancaster today
- Sunrise
- 6:55 am
- Sunset
- 5:27 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 32 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 18 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 32 minutes in Lancaster, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 18 minutes, from 14 hours 18 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours in December.
At 32.6°N that puts Lancaster between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.