Time in Odessa, United States

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

Odessa keeps CDT (5 hours behind UTC, UTC-05:00). Its database zone is America/Chicago — worth knowing if you are scheduling anything that has to survive a daylight saving change.

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

Odessa 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.

With a population near 118,968, Odessa comes in 156th of the 212 United States cities we list.

How Odessa lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.

Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in Odessa local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.

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 Odessa at every moment of the year.

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