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Time in Alabama, United States now

12:48:10AM

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Alabama switched to standard time at 02:00AM on Sunday, November 3. The time was set one hour back.
Sun: ↑ 06:08AM ↓ 04:54PM (10h 46m) - More info - Make Alabama time default - Add to favorite locations

Time zone info for Alabama

UTC -6

Central Time (CT)
now 1 hour behind New York

From 9 March 2025: UTC -5 / Central Daylight Time (CDT)
The time in Alabama is normally one hour behind the time in New York, but because these time zones don't share the same start and end times for daylight saving time, the time in Alabama can for a short while be two hours behind or the same as the time in New York.
The IANA time zone identifier for Alabama is America/Chicago.

Sunday November 3 2024

Latest change: Winter time started

Switched to UTC -6 / Central Standard Time (CST).
The time was set back one hour from 02:00AM to 01:00AM local time.

Sunday March 9 2025

Next change: Summer time starts

Switching to UTC -5 / Central Daylight Time (CDT).
The time will be set forward one hour from 02:00AM to 03:00AM local time.

Time difference
from Alabama

Los Angeles	−2 hours	−2 hours
Chicago	0
New York	+1 hours
Toronto	+1 hours
São Paulo	+3 hours
London	+6 hours
UTC	+6 hours
Lagos	+7 hours
Paris	+7 hours
Zurich	+7 hours
Cairo	+8 hours
Johannesburg	+8 hours
Istanbul	+9 hours
Moscow	+9 hours
Dubai	+10 hours
Mumbai	+11.5 hours
Hong Kong	+14 hours
Shanghai	+14 hours
Singapore	+14 hours
Tokyo	+15 hours
Sydney	+17 hours

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Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Alabama

Sunrise: 06:08AM
Sunset: 04:54PM
Day length: 10h 46m
Solar noon: 11:31AM
The current local time in Alabama is 29 minutes behind apparent solar time.

Alabama on the map

Location: United States
Latitude: 32.75. Longitude: -86.75
Population: 4,530,000
Elevation: 140 m

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Annual average temperatures
for Alabama 1895-2021

Each of the stripes represents one year.
Graphics by Ed Hawkins, using data from NOAA.
See showyourstripes.info.