What time is it in The Woodlands, Texas?
7:55:59 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
- 114,436
Daylight saving in The Woodlands
The Woodlands 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 Woodlands sits at 30.17°N, 95.51°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in The Woodlands.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over The Woodlands it is highest at 1:13 pm today — 73 minutes after clock noon.
At 95.5°W, The Woodlands 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 Woodlands today
- Sunrise
- 7:12 am
- Sunset
- 7:14 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 5 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in The Woodlands, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 54 minutes, from 14 hours 5 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 12 minutes in December.
At 30.2°N that puts The Woodlands between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.