What time is it in The Colony, 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
- 45,897
Daylight saving in The Colony
The Colony is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
The Colony sits at 33.09°N, 96.90°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in The Colony.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over The Colony it is highest at 1:19 pm today — 79 minutes after clock noon.
At 96.9°W, The Colony 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 The Colony today
- Sunrise
- 7:18 am
- Sunset
- 7:20 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 20 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in The Colony, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 23 minutes, from 14 hours 20 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 58 minutes in December.
At 33.1°N that puts The Colony between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.