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What are the Texas time zones?

Texas has 2 time zones, UTC−07:00 to UTC−06:00, as of September 30, 2026. The table shows every zone at an example time, 12:00 PM in Central: Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio; type any time or date.

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Time zones
2

At 12:00 PM on September 30, 2026 in Central: Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Texas has 2 time zones and 2 UTC offsets in use.

UTC offsets in use at that moment
2
Central: Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio
12:00 PM CDT · Wed, Sep 30 · UTC−05:00 · daylight saving
Mountain: El Paso and Hudspeth counties
11:00 AM MDT · Wed, Sep 30 · UTC−06:00 · daylight saving

Answer for the example date Wednesday, September 30, 2026. It changes to today's date when the page loads.

Time zones: 2. At 12:00 PM on September 30, 2026 in Central: Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Texas has 2 time zones and 2 UTC offsets in use.

How to calculate

Lists the time zones of Texas with the local time, abbreviation, UTC offset, and daylight saving in each, for any time and date.

Example with the default inputs (Time 12:00, In Central: Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Date September 30, 2026) on the example date Wednesday, September 30, 2026: At 12:00 PM on September 30, 2026 in Central: Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Texas has 2 time zones and 2 UTC offsets in use.

Method: For the typed time in the chosen zone, find the instant (UTC) it names, then show each listed zone’s clock at that instant with its UTC offset, from the browser’s IANA time zone data.

  • The zones are IANA tzdata names from zone1970.tab (tzdata 2026a): America/Chicago, America/Denver. The browser supplies each zone's offsets and daylight saving rules, so a rule change arrives with a browser update.
  • “Time zones” counts the different standard offsets among the listed zones. A zone’s standard offset in a year is the lower of its offsets at 00:00 UTC on January 1 and July 1 of that UTC year.
  • “UTC offsets in use” counts the different offsets the listed zones show at that moment.
  • Each zone shows its local time, the abbreviation from the browser’s Unicode CLDR English names (left out when CLDR has none), the date as “Tue, Sep 29”, the offset as UTC+hh:mm or UTC−hh:mm, and “daylight saving” when the offset is ahead of the standard offset, “standard time” when the zone’s January 1 and July 1 offsets differ but it is on the standard offset, or “no daylight saving” when they are the same. Because the rule compares January 1 and July 1, a zone that moves its offset for good during a year (Cancún in 2015, Novosibirsk in 2016), or whose January 1 falls in Morocco’s Ramadan change (Casablanca in 2030 to 2033), shows the later offset as “daylight saving” for that year.
  • A time that does not exist in the chosen zone (skipped when clocks spring forward) has no answer. A time that occurs twice (when clocks fall back) shows both moments, earlier first, where they differ.
  • Dates from 2000 to 2040 work.

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Worked examples

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  1. Time 12:00, In Central: Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Date 2026-01-15 gives Time zones 2, UTC offsets in use at that moment 2, Central: Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio 12:00 PM CST · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC−06:00 · standard time, Mountain: El Paso and Hudspeth counties 11:00 AM MST · Thu, Jan 15 · UTC−07:00 · standard time.Source: IANA Time Zone Database, tzdata 2026a (https://www.iana.org/time-zones)
  2. Time 12:00, In Central: Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Date 2026-07-15 gives Time zones 2, UTC offsets in use at that moment 2, Central: Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio 12:00 PM CDT · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC−05:00 · daylight saving, Mountain: El Paso and Hudspeth counties 11:00 AM MDT · Wed, Jul 15 · UTC−06:00 · daylight saving.Source: IANA Time Zone Database, tzdata 2026a (https://www.iana.org/time-zones)

Other questions people ask

How many time zones are in Texas?

Two. Most of Texas uses Central time (CST, UTC−06:00, and CDT, UTC−05:00, in summer). El Paso and Hudspeth counties in the far west use Mountain time (MST, UTC−07:00, and MDT, UTC−06:00), 1 hour behind.

Does Texas use daylight saving time?

Yes. Both parts of Texas change their clocks on the US dates: the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November, at 2:00 AM local time.

What time zone is El Paso in?

Mountain time, the same as Denver: 1 hour behind Houston and Dallas, except for an hour at each clock change, because each zone changes at its own 2:00 AM.