What time is it in Waxahachie, Texas?
7:55:22 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
- 48,617
Daylight saving in Waxahachie
Waxahachie is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Waxahachie sits at 32.40°N, 96.84°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Waxahachie.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Waxahachie it is highest at 1:18 pm today — 78 minutes after clock noon.
At 96.8°W, Waxahachie 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 Waxahachie today
- Sunrise
- 7:17 am
- Sunset
- 7:20 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 17 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Waxahachie, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 16 minutes, from 14 hours 17 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 1 minute in December.
At 32.4°N that puts Waxahachie between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.