Local time · Aurora
What time is it in Aurora, Illinois?
3:48:43AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 180,710
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Aurora
Aurora is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Aurora sits at 41.76°N, 88.29°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Aurora.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Aurora it is highest at 11:37 am today — 23 minutes before clock noon.
At 88.3°W, Aurora 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 Aurora today
- Sunrise
- 6:40 am
- Sunset
- 4:34 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 54 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 13 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 54 minutes in Aurora, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 5 minutes, from 15 hours 13 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 8 minutes in December.
At 41.8°N that puts Aurora between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.