Current time in Arlington, United States
The current local time in Arlington is shown below. Arlington observes CST in winter and CDT during daylight saving time.
What's the daylight saving status?
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What are the timezone facts?
What's the timezone history of Arlington?
Arlington shares Central Time and the federal DST schedule with the rest of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. The DFW metro extends across 13 counties without any internal time variation, the largest single-time-zone metropolitan area in the United States. The Texas Hill Country to the west remains on Central Time, with the change to Mountain Time at the New Mexico border around 1,000 kilometres west. The federal DST applies uniformly with no Texas-level variation.
What are the working hours in Arlington?
Arlington's working economy combines a substantial automotive manufacturing sector (the General Motors Arlington Assembly Plant produces full-size SUVs), the higher-education sector around the University of Texas at Arlington with around 41,000 students, and the major entertainment sector around the AT&T Stadium, Globe Life Field, and Six Flags Over Texas theme park. Office hours run 08:00 to 17:00 in conventional sectors. The Texas Rangers baseball season from April through September and Cowboys NFL season from September through January produce substantial visitor traffic.
Where is Arlington?
Arlington sits midway between Dallas and Fort Worth in north-central Texas, at the geographic centre of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan region. The municipal population is around 395,000, the seventh-largest in Texas. The geography is the rolling flat plains of north Texas at around 190 metres elevation, with the Trinity River running south of the city. The combined Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area at around 8 million people is the fourth-largest in the US. The city's identity is closely tied to the major sports stadiums: AT&T Stadium (Dallas Cowboys) and Globe Life Field (Texas Rangers) anchor the entertainment district.