Current time in Huntsville, United States
The current local time in Huntsville is shown below. Huntsville 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 Huntsville?
Huntsville uses Central Time alongside the rest of Alabama, observing federal DST. The Tennessee state line around 30 kilometres north of the city marks no time change (Tennessee's western part is on Central Time, with Eastern Time on the state's eastern half producing a 200-kilometre-east boundary near Chattanooga). The Georgia border 130 kilometres east marks the change to Eastern Time. Federal DST rules apply uniformly.
What are the working hours in Huntsville?
Huntsville's working economy is dominated by the substantial aerospace and defence sector around NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, the US Army Materiel Command at Redstone Arsenal (with around 40,000 federal and contractor employees), and a growing technology presence. Office hours run 08:00 to 17:00 in conventional sectors. The city has the highest concentration of engineers per capita in the US. The annual Panoply Arts Festival in late April and the Big Spring Jam (when active) anchor the cultural calendar.
Where is Huntsville?
Huntsville sits in the Tennessee River valley of northern Alabama, around 160 kilometres south of Nashville. The metropolitan area holds around 510,000 residents, making it Alabama's largest urban region (recently surpassing Birmingham). The geography is the rolling hills of the southern Appalachian foothills, with Monte Sano State Park's mountain rising to around 530 metres on the eastern boundary. The Tennessee River cuts through the southern part of the metro at around 180 metres elevation. The Redstone Arsenal and Marshall Space Flight Center anchor a substantial federal complex on the south-western edge.