Melissa in numbers
- Coordinates
- 33.2859, -96.5728
- Elevation
- 207 m above sea level
- Population
- 7 436
- Region
- Texas
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1858 km away
- Same name
- 11 more places in the world share this name
Local time right now in Melissa, Texas, United States appears above, in the America/Chicago time zone (−6).
Melissa, United States
Wednesday, 11 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Melissa
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Melissa, Texas.
Sunrise 6:55 AM Solar noon 12:12 PM Sunset 5:28 PM Daylight 10 h 33 min Night 13 h 27 min Civil twilight 6:29 AM – 5:54 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.
Melissa carries 1 postal code.
The zone applied in Melissa is America/Chicago with offset UTC−6. Whether clocks shift for daylight saving: No.
At Melissa the sun clears the horizon at 6:55 AM and sinks again at 5:28 PM. The gap between them is 10 h 33 min.
You will find the same time in Parris (historical) and Chambersville, both near Melissa.