What time is it in San Benito, Texas?
7:54:31 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
- 24,712
Daylight saving in San Benito
San Benito is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
San Benito sits at 26.13°N, 97.64°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in San Benito.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over San Benito it is highest at 1:22 pm today — 82 minutes after clock noon.
At 97.6°W, San Benito 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 San Benito today
- Sunrise
- 7:20 am
- Sunset
- 7:23 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 13 hours 47 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in San Benito, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 16 minutes, from 13 hours 47 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 30 minutes in December.
At 26.1°N that puts San Benito between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.