Dallas, United States · UTC-5
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Dallas-Fort Worth is the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States, running on Central Time with standard US daylight saving: UTC-6 in winter, UTC-5 in summer. The IANA identifier America/Chicago covers the city. Clocks spring forward in March and fall back in November.
Texas as a whole uses Central Time, with the exception of the El Paso area in the far west, which uses Mountain Time. Dallas’s position in north-central Texas puts it solidly in the Central zone. At 32.7 degrees north, summer solstice brings about 14 hours of daylight and winter solstice about 10 hours. The CDT shift in summer means the sun doesn’t set until close to 8:30pm in June, long summer evenings that feel incongruous in a city better known for relentless heat.
Bridging two coasts by timezone
Dallas is a financial and logistics hub, and its timezone position has real commercial significance. The city bridges East Coast banking hours (which begin two hours earlier) and West Coast tech hours (which begin two hours later). A Dallas businessperson has overlapping working hours with both coasts in the same day. This centrality, both geographic and temporal, is part of why Dallas grew into a major corporate headquarters city.
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Questions about time in Dallas
- What timezone is Dallas in?
- Dallas is in Central Time (CT), using the IANA timezone
America/Chicago. The standard UTC offset is UTC-6 (CST) in winter and UTC-5 (CDT) during daylight saving time. - Does Dallas observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. Dallas observes daylight saving time, shifting from UTC-6 (standard time) to UTC-5 in summer.
- What is the current UTC offset for Dallas?
- Dallas is currently at UTC-5. It is currently observing daylight saving time.
- What is the time difference between Dallas and New York?
- Dallas is currently 1 hour behind New York.
- What is the time difference between Dallas and London?
- Dallas is currently 6 hours behind London.
- What is the time difference between Dallas and Los Angeles?
- Dallas is currently 2 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Dallas and Tokyo?
- Dallas is currently 14 hours behind Tokyo. Tokyo does not observe daylight saving time, so this gap changes by 1 hour when Dallas transitions to/from DST.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Dallas?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Dallas is
America/Chicago. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'America/Chicago' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('America/Chicago')`), or any IANA-compatible library.