Local time · McKinney
What time is it in McKinney, Texas?
3:49:33AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 227,526
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in McKinney
McKinney is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
McKinney sits at 33.20°N, 96.66°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in McKinney.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over McKinney it is highest at 12:10 pm today — 10 minutes after clock noon.
At 96.7°W, McKinney 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 McKinney today
- Sunrise
- 6:56 am
- Sunset
- 5:25 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 30 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 21 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 30 minutes in McKinney, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 24 minutes, from 14 hours 21 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 57 minutes in December.
At 33.2°N that puts McKinney between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.