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9–17 in Houston vs UTC
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About Houston
Home to roughly 2,320,268 residents, Houston is a major metropolitan hub in United States. Its terrain rests around 12 m of elevation.
Houston keeps time on the America/Chicago IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. The subtropical, northern-hemisphere setting at 29.76° latitude defines its day-length swing across the year — long summer evenings and shorter winter days.
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 Houston's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Houston
The current local time in Houston, United States is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Houston uses the IANA time zone America/Chicago, currently UTC−5.
Whether Houston 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.
Houston is currently 1 hour behind New York.
Houston is currently 6 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Houston are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (29.7604, -95.3698).
United States uses the USD currency and the +1 international dialing code.
Houston sits at 29.7604° N, 95.3698° W, 12 m above sea level, in United States.