Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. Located in the state's northern region, it is the ninth-most populous city in the United States and third-most populous city in Texas, with a population of 1.3 million at the 2020 census. Along with the city of Fort Worth, Dallas anchors the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. and the most populous metropolitan area in Texas, at 8.5 million people. Dallas is a core city of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern U.S. and the largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link to the sea. It is the seat of Dallas County, covering nearly 386 square miles (1,000 km2) and extending into Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties.
Dallas sits inside Stati Uniti in the North America subregion, with Washington, D.C. as the national capital. The wider country profile covers about 340,110,988 people across roughly 9,525,067 km² and commonly used languages such as English while day-to-day pricing often runs through USD ($) For timekeeping, the city follows America/Chicago (CST, UTC-05:00).
Dallas still works as a strong timezone anchor even when the current page is the main curated reference for this exact zone-country combination. Closer regional neighbors include University Park, Irving, Duncanville, Farmers Branch, Balch Springs, so this page gives you a geographic cluster rather than pretending Dallas sits alone on the map.
The nearest mapped city references are University Park (7 km), Irving (14 km), Duncanville (17 km), Farmers Branch (18 km), Balch Springs (18 km). That local-cluster view tends to be the fastest way to explain why schedules around Dallas often spill into nearby commuter, logistics, and airport markets instead of stopping at one municipal boundary.
At the moment, the strongest live business-hour overlap is with New York (+1h), Los Angeles (-2h), São Paulo (+2h). The next important country scheduling signals are Truman Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth National Independence Day, so teams planning launches, support coverage, or travel around Dallas should treat the holiday calendar as part of the timezone story rather than an afterthought.
Travel context matters too. The closest curated airport references from Dallas currently include DAL Dallas (8 km), DFW Dallas-Fort Worth (25 km), AUS Austin (299 km), OKC Oklahoma City (299 km), and those links are often the fastest way to line up local time with departure windows, airport transfers, or arrival-side planning.
For quick commercial context, the latest cached foreign-exchange snapshot is 1 USD = 0.855 EUR · 1 USD = 0.740 GBP. That is not a trading screen, but it is helpful when people want a same-page sense of how Dallas lines up with invoices, budgets, or partner conversations in other markets.
In 2025, A mass stabbing at a school in Nantes, France, leaves one person dead and three others wounded.. A date-specific history note like that gives the page a live daily element so returning crawls do not keep seeing the same frozen city copy.