Fort Parker in numbers
- Coordinates
- 31.5638, -96.5472
- Elevation
- 153 m above sea level
- Region
- Texas
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1945 km away
What time is it in Fort Parker, Texas, United States
This is the current time in Fort Parker, Texas, United States, shown for the America/Chicago time zone (−5).
Fort Parker, United States
Friday, 23 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Fort Parker
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Fort Parker.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:36 AM Solar noon 1:12 PM Sunset 6:47 PM Daylight 11 h 11 min Night 12 h 49 min Civil twilight 7:11 AM – 7:12 PM
Weather in Fort Parker right now
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Fort Parker and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 76642 Groesbeck — 3.9 km away
- 76667 Mexia — 13.7 km away
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 Texas
- Houston 2 314 157
- San Antonio 1 526 656
- Dallas 1 326 087
- Fort Worth 1 008 106
- Austin 974 447
- El Paso 678 815
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
- Limestone County — 3.8 km
- Doyle — 4.1 km
- Groesbeck — 4.6 km
- Thelma — 6.4 km
- Forest Glade — 7.8 km
- Horn Hill — 8.2 km
Time and daylight in Fort Parker
Fort Parker runs on America/Chicago, which sits UTC−5 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: Yes.
Today the sun rises over Fort Parker at 7:36 AM and sets at 6:47 PM. That is 11 h 11 min of daylight in all.
For Limestone County and Doyle near Fort Parker, the clock reads the same.
Fort Parker is covered by 2 postal codes.
Questions and answers
- How is the time zone for Fort Parker labeled?
- The time zone for Fort Parker is labeled America/Chicago, with an offset of −5.
- Does Fort Parker keep the same offset year round, or does it use daylight saving?
- Daylight saving time in Fort Parker: Yes.
- Tell me the sunset hour in Fort Parker.
- The sunset hour is 6:47 PM.