| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +6h | Becomes +5h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +7h | Becomes +6h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +9h | Becomes +10h on 1 Nov |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +14h | Becomes +15h on 1 Nov |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +15h | Becomes +16h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | +1h | Becomes ±0h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −2h | Becomes −1h on 1 Nov |
Lubbock, United States runs on UTC−5. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−6 in winter, UTC−5 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. The time difference between Lubbock and New York is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–17:00 in Lubbock lines up with 10:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Lubbock and London is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–12:00 in Lubbock lines up with 15:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Lubbock and Tokyo is 14 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with Tokyo, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Chicago, Dallas, Houston. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Lubbock.
Lubbock (United States) is home to roughly 260K people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:41, sunset at 19:33. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−6 in winter, UTC−5 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 34° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
United States
Capital
Washington DC
Continent
North America
Time Zone
CDT · America/Chicago
Coordinates
33.58°N, 101.86°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
Lubbock has among the highest average wind speeds of any US city, around 20 km/h year-round, on the flat expanse of the Llano Estacado. Texas Tech runs a wind research centre here partly for that reason.
The clock: Lubbock keeps Central Time. Buddy Holly was born here in 1936 and is buried in the city cemetery.
Lubbock lies at 101.9°W. Its time zone, UTC−6, is built around the 90°W meridian. The 11.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 47 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:47 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 107 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:47.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 23m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 55m. The swing between them is 4h 28m. At this latitude the seasons are visible in the clock, but never dramatic.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Lubbock the sun comes up earliest on 13 June at 06:36, while the latest sunset waits until 1 July at 21:02. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Lubbock that civil twilight runs about 25 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Lubbock, United States is America/Chicago with a current UTC offset of UTC−5.
Lubbock has an estimated population of 260K and is located at coordinates 33.58°N, 101.86°W.
Lubbock gets 14h 23m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 55m on its shortest, averaging 12h 11m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Lubbock falls at about 12:47 on UTC−6 standard time, because the city sits 11.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
One of the Windiest Cities in America: Lubbock has among the highest average wind speeds of any US city, around 20 km/h year-round, on the flat expanse of the Llano Estacado. Texas Tech runs a wind research centre here partly for that reason.