Local time · Algonquin
What time is it in Algonquin, Illinois?
3:48:52AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 30,539
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Algonquin
Algonquin is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Algonquin sits at 42.16°N, 88.32°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Algonquin.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Algonquin it is highest at 11:37 am today — 23 minutes before clock noon.
At 88.3°W, Algonquin 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 Algonquin today
- Sunrise
- 6:41 am
- Sunset
- 4:33 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 52 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 16 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 52 minutes in Algonquin, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 10 minutes, from 15 hours 16 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 6 minutes in December.
At 42.2°N that puts Algonquin between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.