The Colony in numbers
- Coordinates
- 33.0890, -96.8864
- Elevation
- 180 m above sea level
- Population
- 41 779
- Region
- Texas
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1894 km away
- Same name
- 7 more places in the world share this name
The exact time in The Colony, Texas, United States is given here, for the America/Chicago time zone (−6).
The Colony, United States
Thursday, 12 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in The Colony
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
The Colony keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
Sunrise 6:57 AM Solar noon 12:13 PM Sunset 5:29 PM Daylight 10 h 32 min Night 13 h 28 min Civil twilight 6:31 AM – 5:55 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.
Neighbouring places Camey and Hebron run on The Colony time.
Addresses in The Colony fall under 1 postal code.
The Colony counts hours by America/Chicago, which stands at UTC−6. Whether daylight saving is kept: No.
Daylight arrives in The Colony at 6:57 AM and departs at 5:29 PM. It lasts 10 h 32 min today.