When can you legally buy alcohol in Texas?
Sale hours by product, channel, and county — every answer cited to the statute it comes from, and stamped with the date we last checked it.
Sale hours by product
Beer
7 a.m. – midnight
Mon–Sat · Sunday from 10 a.m. to go
Wine
7 a.m. – midnight
Mon–Sat · above 17% ABV stops at 10 p.m.
Liquor
10 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Mon–Sat · closed every Sunday
These are the statewide hours. Texas also lets counties, cities, and justice-of-the-peace precincts vote on which categories may be sold locally, so the answer can change when you cross a precinct line. See how local status works.
Holiday hours
Package stores close on New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas — and on the following Monday when Christmas or New Year’s falls on a Sunday. Easter is not a closure day, despite what most guides say.
The rules behind the hours
Sunday alcohol laws
Three different rules apply before noon. Beer and wine from 10 a.m., package stores closed all day.
Dry and partially wet counties
Only 3 counties are entirely dry — but 171 are partially wet, where rules change between precincts.
Delivery and alcohol to go
Delivery follows the hours of the store that filled the order — which is why Sunday spirits orders fail.
Where this data comes from
Statute sections, TABC datasets, our method, and an honest list of what we do not know yet.
Why this site exists
Most alcohol-hours answers online are uncited, out of date, or simply wrong — a large share still give Texas Sunday beer sales as starting at noon, four years after the law changed to 10 a.m. Every rule here is stored as structured data traced to a statute section, rendered from one source, and dated. Where we cannot resolve something down to your precinct, we say so instead of guessing.
Our sources and methodLast verified . Statutory text current as of January 1, 2026. How we check this.