What time is it in Mesquite, Texas?
7:03:59 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
- 150,140
Daylight saving in Mesquite
Mesquite is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Mesquite sits at 32.76°N, 96.58°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Mesquite.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Mesquite it is highest at 1:17 pm today — 77 minutes after clock noon.
At 96.6°W, Mesquite 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 Mesquite today
- Sunrise
- 7:16 am
- Sunset
- 7:19 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 19 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Mesquite, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 19 minutes, from 14 hours 19 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 59 minutes in December.
At 32.8°N that puts Mesquite between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.