Time in Texas
Current time for most counties: 23:33, July 10, 2025 CDT [refresh]
Current time for El Paso and Hudspeth counties: 22:33, July 10, 2025 MDT [refresh]
Most of Texas is in the Central Time Zone with the exception being the two westernmost counties.
Northwestern Culberson County near Guadalupe Mountains National Park unofficially observes Mountain Time Zone.[1]
IANA time zone database
The 2 zones for Texas as given by zone.tab of the IANA time zone database. Columns marked * are from the zone.tab.
| c.c.* | coordinates* | TZ* | comments* | UTC offset | UTC offset DST | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | +415100−0873900 | America/Chicago | Central (most areas) | −06:00 | −05:00 | |
| US | +394421−1045903 | America/Denver | Mountain (most areas) | −07:00 | −06:00 |
Historical
The "Panhandle and Plains" section of Texas is now in the Central Time Zone, but had a two-year period of being in the Mountain Time Zone between 1919 and 1921.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "What Time Is It? (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
- ^ A posting to the tzdata-history mailing list provides original documents: http://groups.google.com/group/tzdata-history/browse_thread/thread/5e0d0d24ba438e4c In short: A US government decision in March 1918 announced a change in time zone boundaries. The CT/MT boundary was to run through Texas roughly along the meridian 100w, with a bulge to the west around the towns of Sweatwater, Big Springs and San Angelo, starting January 1, 1919 at 2 am. The local Panhandle and Plains chamber of commerce was not happy in 1919 to be in another time zone than the more populated south-east of the state, and they petitioned a change. A US Congress decision of March 4, 1921, became part of the United States Code as section 265 and moved the Panhandle and Plains area back to CT.