Indexed entity
Houston is the houston-US record in United States: country slug united-states, city slug houston, ISO US, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Chicago.
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Live local time
Houston, United States
05:46:41 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · America/Chicago
Quick answer
It is currently 05:46:41 AM (CDT, UTC-05:00) in Houston, United States — Early morning.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
76°F
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
84°F
72°F
Wed
81°F
72°F
86% rain
Thu
87°F
73°F
48% rain
In 17 days
Juneteenth National Independence Day
Fri, Jun 19, 2026
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Code
United States Dollar
Quoted as the global reference currency.
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
06:21 AM
Sunset
08:17 PM
Day length
13h 57m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Houston, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:46 AM UTC.
Current local time
05:46:41 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CDT
America/Chicago · UTC-05:00
Next holiday
Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, June 19, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Houston right now
Nearest airport
HOU
William P. Hobby Airport · 16 km
Indexed airports
94
Curated airport references available for United States
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Houston, United States.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 05:46 CDT
No reference-city overlap right now
Houston is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC-05:00
Zone label
CDT
London
11:46 AM / +6h
New York
06:46 AM / +1h
Los Angeles
03:46 AM / -2h
Schedule risk
Juneteenth National Independence Day on Friday, June 19, 2026
Travel cue
HOU Houston, 16 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:21 AM to 08:17 PM, with solar noon around 01:19 PM and total daylight of 13h 56m.
Mapped location
29.76°N, 95.36°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:46 AM / +6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:46 AM / +1h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:46 AM / -2h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:46 PM / +9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:46 PM / +13h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Houston.
HOU · William P. Hobby Airport
Houston
IAH · George Bush Intercontinental Airport
Houston
AUS · Austin Bergstrom International Airport
Austin
SAT · San Antonio International Airport
San Antonio
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use America/Chicago for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC-05:00; seasonal offset, UTC-06:00 in January and UTC-05:00 in July.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Houston right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
Juneteenth National Independence Day on Friday, June 19, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: HOU Houston, 16 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
Next detected clock change: November 1, 2026, moving back from 2026-11-01 01:59 (CDT) to 2026-11-01 01:00 (CST).
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Houston has a detected clock-change edge. Re-check recurring meetings within two weeks of November 1, 2026, especially if the other city does not change clocks on the same weekend.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Houston.
Canonical route
/time/united-states/houston/
Catalog identity
houston-US · US · America
Coordinate cell
29.76°N, 95.36°W · lat 29.763 · lon -95.363 · cell 2976:-9536
Population record
2,314,157 residents · country rank 6
Zone snapshot
America/Chicago · CDT · UTC-05:00
January / July offsets
UTC-06:00 / UTC-05:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
San Antonio, United States · 305 km
Nearest world hub
Los Angeles · 2,207 km
Closest airport references
HOU Houston 16 km · IAH Houston 25 km · AUS Austin 227 km · SAT San Antonio 301 km
Zone peer roster
Chicago, United States · San Antonio, United States · Dallas, United States
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Houston: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Houston is the houston-US record in United States: country slug united-states, city slug houston, ISO US, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Chicago.
29.76°N, 95.36°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 29 and longitude band -96; exact decimal pair 29.76328, -95.36327.
United States: official name United States of America; capital Washington, D.C.; region Americas; subregion North America; country population 340,110,988; area 9,525,067 km²; languages English; currencies USD United States dollar. This is the country layer behind the Houston clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
United States: The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States also asserts sovereignty over five major island territories and various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's third-largest land area and third-largest population, exceeding 341 million. Source: Wikipedia.
San Antonio [san-antonio-US, US, America/Chicago, 305 km]; Dallas [dallas-US, US, America/Chicago, 363 km]; Nuevo Laredo [nuevo-laredo-MX, MX, America/Matamoros, 478 km]; Heroica Matamoros [heroica-matamoros-MX, MX, America/Matamoros, 480 km]; Reynosa [reynosa-MX, MX, America/Matamoros, 500 km]; Ciudad Acuña [ciudad-acuna-MX, MX, America/Matamoros, 543 km]; Ciudad Juárez [ciudad-juarez-MX, MX, America/Ciudad_Juarez, 1082 km]; El Paso [el-paso-US, US, America/Denver, 1085 km]
Houston is part of this indexed country cluster: New York City [new-york-city-US, America/New_York, pop 8,804,190]; Los Angeles [los-angeles-US, America/Los_Angeles, pop 3,820,914]; Brooklyn [brooklyn-US, America/New_York, pop 2,736,074]; Chicago [chicago-US, America/Chicago, pop 2,664,452]; Queens [queens-US, America/New_York, pop 2,316,841]; Houston [houston-US, America/Chicago, pop 2,314,157]; Phoenix [phoenix-US, America/Phoenix, pop 1,650,070]; Philadelphia [philadelphia-US, America/New_York, pop 1,573,916]; San Antonio [san-antonio-US, America/Chicago, pop 1,526,656]; San Diego [san-diego-US, America/Los_Angeles, pop 1,404,452].
Los Angeles 2,207 km; New York 2,281 km; London 7,802 km; São Paulo 7,888 km; Tokyo 10,741 km; Dubai 13,147 km; Sydney 13,819 km; Singapore 16,000 km
HOU William P. Hobby Airport in Houston [US, 16 km]; IAH George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston [US, 25 km]; AUS Austin Bergstrom International Airport in Austin [US, 227 km]; SAT San Antonio International Airport in San Antonio [US, 301 km]; DAL Dallas Love Field in Dallas [US, 371 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include ABQ Albuquerque International Sunport in Albuquerque [US]; ALB Albany International Airport in Albany [US]; ANC Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Anchorage [US]; ATL Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta [US]; AUS Austin Bergstrom International Airport in Austin [US]; BDL Bradley International Airport in Hartford [US]; BHM Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Birmingham [US]; BNA Nashville International Airport in Nashville [US]; BOI Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field in Boise [US]; BOS Boston Logan International Airport in Boston [US].
Houston renders Jun 2, 2026 · 05:46 CDT; CDT at UTC-05:00; January UTC-06:00; July UTC-05:00; next holiday Juneteenth National Independence Day on 2026-06-19.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Houston.
Houston is a manual-dossier city; rank #6 of 29 retained United States city pages. The route is /time/united-states/houston/ and the city id is houston-US.
Houston has 16 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Houston is pinned at 29.76°N, 95.36°W; San Antonio (305 km); Los Angeles (2,207 km).
America/Chicago resolves to seasonal offset split: UTC-06:00 in January and UTC-05:00 in July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside United States.
HOU William P. Hobby Airport (16 km) · Juneteenth National Independence Day (Friday, June 19, 2026) · 94 country airport references · 16 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Houston uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Houston: 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.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC-06:00 and summer UTC-05:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone America/Chicago.
Houston is listed in the dataset snapshot as 5 hours behind UTC (offset -05:00). 6 hours behind London, 14 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -95.36°, Houston's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 21 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled -05:00 civil offset; during the alternate seasonal offset this shifts by about one hour on the clock — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Houston sits at 29.76°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 13 hours 55 minutes on the June solstice and about 10 hours 5 minutes on the December solstice.
Houston sits at 29.76°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 13 hours 55 minutes on the June solstice and about 10 hours 5 minutes on the December solstice.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 14 (14h 3m)
Shortest day
Dec 16 (10h 14m)
Year-round average
12h 10m
Annual swing
3h 49m
See the full daylight curve for Houston at /sun/houston/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Houston local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Houston |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 00:00 - 08:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 22:30 - 06:30 (next day) |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 20:00 - 04:00 (next day) |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 20:00 - 04:00 (next day) |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 19:00 - 03:00 (next day) |
IANA time zones in country
8
Public holidays in 2026
16
Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth-most-populous city in the United States, with about 2.3 million residents in the city proper and over 7.5 million across the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Central Time applies (CST, UTC-6; CDT, UTC-5), with daylight saving on the standard US schedule from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November. Houston is widely known as the energy capital of the world, hosting the headquarters and operations of a large share of the global oil and gas industry, and the Houston Ship Channel connects the inland city to the Gulf of Mexico. The city is also a leader in aerospace as home to NASA's Johnson Space Center, the hub of US human spaceflight operations and Mission Control, and the Texas Medical Center is one of the largest medical complexes in the world.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Houston's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 05:46:41 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Houston (UTC-05:00, CDT).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:21 AM to 08:17 PM
Day length 13h 56m · Solar noon 01:19 PM
Next country holiday
Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, June 19, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Houston local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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keynoteWednesday, October 28, 2026
148 days to go
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keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
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keynoteTuesday, November 17, 2026
168 days to go
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keynoteMonday, November 30, 2026
181 days to go
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187 days to go
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Population
2.3M
Coordinates
29.76, -95.36
Timezone
America/Chicago
Indexed airports
94
Capital
Washington, D.C.
Languages
English
Currency
USD ($)
Country area
9,525,067 km²
Houston, United States (population rank #6 in this dataset). Time zone: America/Chicago (CDT, UTC-05:00); population ~2.3M.
Coordinates: 29.76°N, 95.36°W. Northern Hemisphere subtropics, ~3304 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:21 AM and sets around 08:17 PM in Houston — about 13h 56m of daylight. United States observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
San Antonio (305 km from Houston) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 94 curated airport pages indexed for United States.
Next national holiday: Juneteenth National Independence Day, 2026-06-19.
Houston is indexed as a America city in the US country record, using America/Chicago as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/united-states/houston/.
Location context: 29.76°N, 95.36°W; population 2,314,157; nearest indexed city San Antonio is about 305 km away; closest reference hub is Los Angeles, about 2,207 km away.
Country planning context: capital Washington, D.C.; subregion North America; languages English; currency USD ($); area 9,525,067 km²; 94 curated airport references; next holiday Juneteenth National Independence Day on 2026-06-19.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC-06:00 and summer UTC-05:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone America/Chicago.
Houston is listed in the dataset snapshot as 5 hours behind UTC (offset -05:00). 6 hours behind London, 14 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -95.36°, Houston's mean solar noon falls about 1 hour 21 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled -05:00 civil offset; during the alternate seasonal offset this shifts by about one hour on the clock — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Houston sits at 29.76°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 13 hours 55 minutes on the June solstice and about 10 hours 5 minutes on the December solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 2.3 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Houston: New York City (+1h), Sydney (+15h), Tokyo (+14h), Los Angeles (−2h), Dubai (+9h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
united-states
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CDT
IANA Zone
America/Chicago
UTC Offset
UTC-05:00
DST Status
Observing DST
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC-05:00
Brazil, United States, Mexico, Canada, Colombia, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Panama
Other cities in this timezone
London
+6h
New York
+1h
Los Angeles
-2h
Dubai
+9h
Singapore
+13h
Tokyo
+14h
Sydney
+15h
São Paulo
+2h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Houston.
Public-disclosure tracker
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Houston: closest hubs Los Angeles (~2,207 km), New York (~2,281 km), London (~7,802 km); farthest indexed hub Singapore (~16,000 km).
Houston sits inside United States — the North America subregion, capital Washington, D.C., languages English, currency USD ($).
Closest indexed cities to Houston: San Antonio (305 km), Dallas (363 km), Nuevo Laredo (478 km), Heroica Matamoros (480 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Houston: Juneteenth National Independence Day, Independence Day, Labour Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for United States.
Closest curated airport references from Houston: HOU Houston (16 km), IAH Houston (25 km), AUS Austin (227 km).
US cities often rank because people want to know whether the workday still overlaps with Europe, India, or APAC.
William P. Hobby AirportHOU
Houston · 16 km from Houston
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
George Bush Intercontinental AirportIAH
Houston · 25 km from Houston
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
Austin Bergstrom International AirportAUS
Austin · 227 km from Houston
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 2m
San Antonio International AirportSAT
San Antonio · 301 km from Houston
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 8m
Dallas Love FieldDAL
Dallas · 371 km from Houston
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 14m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:46 AM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:46 AM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:46 AM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:46 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:46 PM | +13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:46 PM | +14h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:46 PM | +15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:46 AM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
San Antonio
United States
Approx. 305 km away
Dallas
United States
Approx. 363 km away
Nuevo Laredo
Mexico
Approx. 478 km away
Heroica Matamoros
Mexico
Approx. 480 km away
Reynosa
Mexico
Approx. 500 km away
Ciudad Acuña
Mexico
Approx. 543 km away
Ciudad Juárez
Mexico
Approx. 1082 km away
El Paso
United States
Approx. 1085 km away
Houston is in the America/Chicago timezone (CDT), with a UTC offset of -05:00.
Houston uses seasonal daylight saving rules in America/Chicago. The current offset is UTC-05:00; January resolves to UTC-06:00 and July resolves to UTC-05:00.
The current UTC offset for Houston is UTC-05:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Houston, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 05:46 CDT. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Houston sits at 29.76°N, 95.36°W in United States, with about 2.3M residents (rank #6 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Houston is Los Angeles, about 2,207 km away as the crow flies.
San Antonio is the closest indexed city, roughly 305 km from Houston.
William P. Hobby Airport (HOU) is the closest curated airport reference, about 16 km from Houston.
Juneteenth National Independence Day is the next upcoming holiday in United States, on Friday, June 19, 2026.
Houston uses United States dollar (USD, symbol $) as the local currency of United States.
The longest day of 2026 in Houston falls on Jun 14 with about 14h 3m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 16 with 10h 14m; the year-round average is 12h 10m.
United States spans 8 IANA time zones in total; Houston's canonical zone for this page is America/Chicago.
In Houston local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 08:00-16:00; London 03:00-11:00; Frankfurt 02:00-10:00; Dubai 00:00-08:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.