Time in Jackson, Mississippi, United States

Time zone: CDT (UTC/GMT -05:00) — America/Chicago

The local standard in Jackson is CDT — UTC-05:00, or 5 hours behind UTC. Systems that store time zones by name use America/Chicago for this part of the world.

This zone does shift. On Sunday, 01 November 2026 the clocks go back 1 hour and Jackson moves to CST, so anything booked across that date needs checking.

Jackson is one of 419 United States cities here, spread over 10 time zones; do not assume the rest of the country reads the same clock.

Live differences from Jackson, calculated from each zone's rules as they stand today rather than a fixed table.

Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Jackson time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.

No shared working window exists with Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai or Tokyo, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.

These United States cities also use America/Chicago, so their clocks read identically to Jackson at every moment of the year.

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