Local time · McAllen
What time is it in McAllen, Texas?
3:49:01AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 148,782
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in McAllen
McAllen is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
McAllen sits at 26.22°N, 98.25°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in McAllen.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over McAllen it is highest at 12:17 pm today — 17 minutes after clock noon.
At 98.2°W, McAllen sits 33 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 33 minutes after noon.
Daylight in McAllen today
- Sunrise
- 6:50 am
- Sunset
- 5:44 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 54 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 47 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 54 minutes in McAllen, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 17 minutes, from 13 hours 47 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 30 minutes in December.
At 26.2°N that puts McAllen between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.