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9–17 in Austin vs UTC
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About Austin
Home to roughly 978,908 residents, Austin is a substantial regional city in United States. Its terrain rests around 149 m of elevation.
For computers and clocks, Austin is anchored to the America/Chicago time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. Sun behaviour here follows the subtropical pattern of the northern hemisphere, with the steepest seasonal day-length swings around the equinoxes.
Locally, prices are quoted in USD and the international dialing code is +1. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Austin's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Austin
The current local time in Austin, United States is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Austin uses the IANA time zone America/Chicago, currently UTC−5.
Whether Austin observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (America/Chicago) is the source of truth.
Austin is currently 1 hour behind New York.
Austin is currently 6 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Austin are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (30.2672, -97.7431).
United States uses the USD currency and the +1 international dialing code.
Austin sits at 30.2672° N, 97.7431° W, 149 m above sea level, in United States.