Local time · Socorro
What time is it in Socorro, Texas?
2:49:00AM
- Time zone
- MST
- America/Denver
- UTC offset
- −7:00
- Standard is −7:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 38,642
- City proper
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About this clock
Socorro does not keep Texas's usual time
Most of Texas is on Central Standard Time, but Socorro keeps Mountain Standard Time — 1 hour behind the rest of the state. This is the kind of thing that catches people out, and it is why the zone is resolved from the city’s own coordinates rather than assumed from the state.
Socorro is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Socorro sits at 31.64°N, 106.26°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Socorro.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Socorro it is highest at 11:49 am today — 11 minutes before clock noon.
At 106.3°W, Socorro sits almost exactly on Mountain Standard Time’s 105° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in Socorro today
- Sunrise
- 6:31 am
- Sunset
- 5:06 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 35 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 13 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 35 minutes in Socorro, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 8 minutes, from 14 hours 13 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 5 minutes in December.
At 31.6°N that puts Socorro between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.