What time is it in San Marcos, Texas?
7:04:32 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
- 74,316
Daylight saving in San Marcos
San Marcos 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 Marcos sits at 29.87°N, 97.94°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in San Marcos.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over San Marcos it is highest at 1:23 pm today — 83 minutes after clock noon.
At 97.9°W, San Marcos 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 Marcos today
- Sunrise
- 7:21 am
- Sunset
- 7:24 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 4 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in San Marcos, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 51 minutes, from 14 hours 4 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 13 minutes in December.
At 29.9°N that puts San Marcos between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.