Current time in Auburn, United States
The current local time in Auburn is shown below. Auburn 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 Auburn?
Auburn uses Central Time alongside the rest of Alabama. The federal DST schedule applies. The Georgia state border around 25 kilometres east marks the Central/Eastern timezone boundary, an unusually fine-grained transition for a major university with a substantial cross-border student and athletic-fan catchment. Football game-day scheduling at Jordan-Hare Stadium routinely involves Georgia visitors crossing into a different time zone. The city's longitude around 85.5 degrees west sits well east of the Central Standard Time meridian.
What are the working hours in Auburn?
The university, automotive manufacturing in adjacent Opelika and at Hyundai's nearby Montgomery plant, and biomedical research anchor employment. Office hours run 08:00 to 17:00, with university-calendar effects substantial during the spring and autumn semesters. SEC football game-day Saturdays, particularly Iron Bowl weekend in late November alternating with Tuscaloosa, dominate the autumn social calendar with road closures and substantial visitor traffic. State holidays in Alabama include Confederate Memorial Day (last Monday in April) and Robert E. Lee/Martin Luther King Day in January.
Where is Auburn?
Auburn lies in eastern Alabama, around 80 kilometres east of Montgomery and 160 kilometres south-west of Atlanta. The city proper holds around 100,000 residents, with the wider Auburn-Opelika metropolitan area reaching approximately 175,000. Auburn University, founded in 1856, occupies a 7 square kilometre campus immediately east of downtown and is the dominant feature of the local landscape and economy. The city sits on the southern edge of the Appalachian piedmont at around 220 metres elevation, transitioning toward the coastal plain to the south.