Local time · Jonesboro
What time is it in Jonesboro, Arkansas?
3:50:44AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 82,384
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Jonesboro
Jonesboro is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Jonesboro sits at 35.82°N, 90.68°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Jonesboro.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Jonesboro it is highest at 11:46 am today — 14 minutes before clock noon.
At 90.7°W, Jonesboro sits almost exactly on Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in Jonesboro today
- Sunrise
- 6:37 am
- Sunset
- 4:56 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 20 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 35 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 20 minutes in Jonesboro, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 52 minutes, from 14 hours 35 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 44 minutes in December.
At 35.8°N that puts Jonesboro between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.