Gulf Shores in numbers
- Coordinates
- 30.2460, -87.7008
- Elevation
- 2 m above sea level
- Population
- 11 131
- Region
- Alabama
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1369 km away
What time is it in Gulf Shores, Alabama, United States
This page shows, minute by minute, the local time in Gulf Shores, Alabama, United States, in the America/Chicago zone (−5).
Gulf Shores, United States
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Gulf Shores
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Gulf Shores keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:54 AM Solar noon 12:37 PM Sunset 6:20 PM Daylight 11 h 26 min Night 12 h 34 min Civil twilight 6:30 AM – 6:44 PM
Weather in Gulf Shores right now
Loading the current weather…
Weather data by Open-Meteo, updated every 30 minutes.
Gulf Shores and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 36542
- 36547
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Alabama
- Huntsville 215 006
- Birmingham 196 357
- Montgomery 195 287
- Mobile 183 289
- Tuscaloosa 111 338
- Hoover 84 848
Same time zone — America/Chicago
- Chicago United States
- Houston United States
- San Antonio United States
- Dallas United States
- Fort Worth United States
- Austin United States
Nearby places
- Oyster Bay — 6.0 km
- Bay Village Mobile Home Park — 7.2 km
- Romar Beach — 7.7 km
- Oak — 8.0 km
- Land Harbor Mobile Home Park — 8.1 km
- Bon Secour — 8.2 km
Time and daylight in Gulf Shores
Gulf Shores reads its time from America/Chicago, placed at UTC−5. Whether daylight saving time is observed: Yes.
Today's sun rises in Gulf Shores at 6:54 AM, then sets at 6:20 PM. The day offers 11 h 26 min of daylight.
Oyster Bay and Bay Village Mobile Home Park are near Gulf Shores and do not differ from it in time.
Postal service in Gulf Shores uses 2 codes.
Questions and answers
- Which local time zone does Gulf Shores follow?
- Gulf Shores follows America/Chicago, with an offset of −5.
- Is summer time applied in Gulf Shores?
- Yes.
- Can you tell me the sunset time in Gulf Shores?
- In Gulf Shores the sun sets at 6:20 PM.