Alum in numbers
- Coordinates
- 29.2952, -97.9647
- Elevation
- 147 m above sea level
- Region
- Texas
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 2195 km away
- Same name
- 17 more places in the world share this name
The exact time in Alum, Texas, United States is given here, for the America/Chicago time zone (−6).
Alum, United States
Saturday, 14 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Alum
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Alum keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
Sunrise 6:56 AM Solar noon 12:18 PM Sunset 5:39 PM Daylight 10 h 43 min Night 13 h 17 min Civil twilight 6:31 AM – 6:04 PM
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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.
Nearby Caddo and Stockdale need no separate clock from Alum.
The number of postal codes covering Alum is 3.
Alum counts hours by America/Chicago, which stands at UTC−6. Whether daylight saving is kept: No.
Sun-up in Alum is 6:56 AM today and sun-down is 5:39 PM. That gap holds 10 h 43 min of daylight.