Fort Stockton in numbers
- Coordinates
- 30.8940, -102.8790
- Elevation
- 906 m above sea level
- Population
- 8 649
- Region
- Texas
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 2509 km away
What time is it in Fort Stockton, Texas, United States
What follows is the current local time in Fort Stockton, Texas, United States, in the America/Chicago zone (−6).
Fort Stockton, United States
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Fort Stockton
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Fort Stockton, Texas.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:15 AM Solar noon 12:37 PM Sunset 5:58 PM Daylight 10 h 43 min Night 13 h 17 min Civil twilight 6:50 AM – 6:23 PM
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Fort Stockton and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 79735
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
- Bodieville Colonia — 1.9 km
- Little Mexico Colonia — 2.7 km
- Alamo Ranchettes Colonia — 4.7 km
- Guild — 6.9 km
- Belding — 18.0 km
- Pecos County — 19.4 km
Local time details for Fort Stockton
Addressing within Fort Stockton draws on 1 postal code.
Local timekeeping in Fort Stockton uses America/Chicago, equal to UTC−6. Summer clock change: No.
Morning light reaches Fort Stockton at 7:15 AM, and the sun sets at 5:58 PM. Daylight lasts a total of 10 h 43 min.
Places close to Fort Stockton, among them Bodieville Colonia and Little Mexico Colonia, share its time.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is Fort Stockton in?
- Fort Stockton is in the America/Chicago time zone, with an offset of −6.
- Does the time in Fort Stockton shift by an hour at any point in the year?
- No.
- When does the sun disappear in Fort Stockton?
- It disappears at 5:58 PM.