What time is it in Melissa, Texas?
7:52:33 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
- 26,194
Daylight saving in Melissa
Melissa is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 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 Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Melissa it is highest at 1:17 pm today — 77 minutes after clock noon.
At 96.6°W, Melissa 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 Melissa today
- Sunrise
- 7:16 am
- Sunset
- 7:18 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 21 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 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.