What time is it in New Braunfels, Texas?
7:04:59 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
- 116,477
Daylight saving in New Braunfels
New Braunfels is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
New Braunfels sits at 29.70°N, 98.12°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in New Braunfels.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over New Braunfels it is highest at 1:24 pm today — 84 minutes after clock noon.
At 98.1°W, New Braunfels 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 New Braunfels today
- Sunrise
- 7:22 am
- Sunset
- 7:25 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 3 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in New Braunfels, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 49 minutes, from 14 hours 3 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 14 minutes in December.
At 29.7°N that puts New Braunfels between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.