Time in Texas

Current time for most counties: 23:31, May 31, 2025 CDT [refresh]
Current time for El Paso and Hudspeth counties: 22:31, May 31, 2025 MDT [refresh]

Most of Texas is in the Central Time Zone with the exception being the two westernmost counties.

• El Paso County
• Hudspeth County

Northwestern Culberson County near Guadalupe Mountains National Park unofficially observes Mountain Time Zone.^[1]

IANA time zone database

The 2 zones for Texas as given by zone.tab of the IANA time zone database. Columns marked * are from the zone.tab.

c.c.*	coordinates*	TZ*	comments*	UTC offset	UTC offset DST	Note
US	+415100−0873900	America/Chicago	Central (most areas)	−06:00	−05:00
US	+394421−1045903	America/Denver	Mountain (most areas)	−07:00	−06:00

Historical

Historical Texas time zones. Now only the green area follows Mountain Time, the rest follows Central Time.

The "Panhandle and Plains" section of Texas is now in the Central Time Zone, but had a two-year period of being in the Mountain Time Zone between 1919 and 1921.^[2]

See also

• Time in the United States