Current time in Amarillo, United States
The current local time in Amarillo is shown below. Amarillo observes CST in winter and CDT during daylight saving time.
What's the daylight saving status?
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- America/Chicago
- Standard abbreviation
- CST
- DST abbreviation
- CDT
- Observes daylight saving
- Yes
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Amarillo?
Amarillo uses Central Time, despite its far-western Texas position. The Texas-New Mexico border 90 kilometres west marks the Central/Mountain timezone boundary, an arbitrary line not corresponding to longitude. The federal DST schedule applies. The city's longitude around 101.8 degrees west sits well west of the Central Standard Time meridian, leaving wall time more than 30 minutes behind mean solar noon in standard months and producing late-feeling sunsets in summer extending past 21:30. Oklahoma's panhandle to the north also uses Central.
What are the working hours in Amarillo?
Beef processing (the city is one of the largest cattle-feeding centres in the US), oil and gas extraction in the underlying Permian Basin, wind energy (the Texas Panhandle hosts substantial wind farms), and a Pantex nuclear weapons assembly facility 25 kilometres east anchor employment. Office hours run 08:00 to 17:00. The Texas State Fair scheduling in Dallas in late September draws regional travel. Rodeo and ranching events including the Tri-State Fair and Rodeo in September are locally significant. The substantial wind energy sector adds infrastructure-maintenance scheduling tied to weather windows.
Where is Amarillo?
Amarillo sits in the Texas Panhandle at around 1,100 metres elevation, the highest US city of its size. The city proper holds around 200,000 residents and the wider metropolitan area roughly 270,000. The Llano Estacado plateau, an exceptionally flat tableland the size of Indiana, extends south and east. Palo Duro Canyon, the second-largest canyon in the United States after the Grand Canyon, lies around 35 kilometres south. The city's grid was platted in 1887 along the Fort Worth and Denver Railway. New Mexico lies 90 kilometres west and Oklahoma 200 kilometres east.