Hora Atual em Houston, Estados Unidos — CST.

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States. It is the fourth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 2.3 million at the 2020 census. The Greater Houston metropolitan area, at 7.8 million residents, is the fifth-most populous metropolitan area in the nation and second-most populous in Texas. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, Houston is the county seat of Harris County. Covering a total area of 640.4 square miles (1,659 km2), it is the ninth largest city in the country and the largest whose municipal government is not consolidated with a county, parish, or borough. Although primarily located within Harris County, portions of the city extend into Fort Bend and Montgomery counties. Houston also functions as the southeastern anchor of the Texas Triangle megaregion.

Houston sits inside Estados Unidos 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).

Houston 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 West University Place, Bellaire, South Houston, Pasadena, Cloverleaf, so this page gives you a geographic cluster rather than pretending Houston sits alone on the map.

The nearest mapped city references are West University Place (8 km), Bellaire (11 km), South Houston (17 km), Pasadena (17 km), Cloverleaf (19 km). That local-cluster view tends to be the fastest way to explain why schedules around Houston 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 Houston 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 Houston currently include HOU Houston (16 km), IAH Houston (25 km), AUS Austin (227 km), SAT San Antonio (301 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 Houston 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.