Taft in numbers
- Coordinates
- 27.9802, -97.3911
- Elevation
- 15 m above sea level
- Population
- 3 091
- Region
- Texas
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 2237 km away
- Same name
- 22 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Taft, Texas, United States
Look up the current time in Taft, Texas, United States, which follows the America/Chicago zone (−5).
Taft, United States
Friday, 23 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Taft
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Taft keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:36 AM Solar noon 1:15 PM Sunset 6:54 PM Daylight 11 h 18 min Night 12 h 42 min Civil twilight 7:12 AM – 7:18 PM
Weather in Taft right now
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Taft and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 38488
- 74463
- 78390
- 93268
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
Other places named Taft
- Taft Yazd Province, Iran
- Taft California, United States
- Taft Eastern Visayas, Philippines
- Taft Florida, United States
- Taft Oklahoma, United States
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
- Tierra Buena Colonia — 1.4 km
- Taft Southwest (historical) — 1.4 km
- Second Roosevelt Colonia — 1.4 km
- Roosevelt Colonia — 1.5 km
- Third Hidalgo Colonia — 1.7 km
- Algodon Colonia — 1.9 km
Taft: clock, sun and surroundings
4 postal codes are in use across Taft.
Taft follows America/Chicago, giving it a UTC−5 offset. Does the zone observe daylight saving? Yes.
Today Taft gets sunrise at 7:36 AM and sunset at 6:54 PM. That leaves 11 h 18 min of daylight.
For Tierra Buena Colonia and Second Roosevelt Colonia near Taft, the clock reads the same.
Questions and answers
- Which local time zone does Taft follow?
- Taft follows America/Chicago, with an offset of −5.
- Is summer time in effect in Taft at some point in the year?
- Daylight saving observed in Taft: Yes.
- Both sunrise and sunset in Taft — what times?
- 7:36 AM and 6:54 PM.