Local time · Melissa
What time is it in Melissa, Texas?
3:48:55AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 26,194
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Melissa
Melissa is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Melissa sits at 33.29°N, 96.56°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Melissa.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Melissa it is highest at 12:10 pm today — 10 minutes after clock noon.
At 96.6°W, Melissa sits 26 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 26 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Melissa today
- Sunrise
- 6:55 am
- Sunset
- 5:25 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 29 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 21 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 29 minutes in Melissa, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 25 minutes, from 14 hours 21 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 57 minutes in December.
At 33.3°N that puts Melissa between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.