Hays in numbers
- Coordinates
- 30.1227, -97.8722
- Elevation
- 222 m above sea level
- Population
- 221
- Region
- Texas
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 2137 km away
- Same name
- 16 more places in the world share this name
This page shows the time of day in Hays, Texas, United States as it stands now, in the America/Chicago zone (−6).
Hays, United States
Friday, 13 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Hays
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Hays.
Sunrise 6:56 AM Solar noon 12:17 PM Sunset 5:38 PM Daylight 10 h 41 min Night 13 h 19 min Civil twilight 6:31 AM – 6:03 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.
Delivery zones in Hays are marked by 3 postal codes.
Hays sets its clocks by America/Chicago, which runs UTC−6. Daylight saving time here: No.
Daylight in Hays today runs from 6:56 AM to 5:38 PM. The stretch measures 10 h 41 min.
For Manchaca and Shady Hollow near Hays, the clock reads the same.