What time is it in Carbondale, Illinois?

Carbondale is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.

Carbondale sits at 37.72°N, 89.22°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Carbondale.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Carbondale it is highest at 12:48 pm today — 48 minutes after clock noon.

At 89.2°W, Carbondale sits well toward the western edge of its zone, which is why the sun stays up later here than the clock suggests. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.

Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Carbondale, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 14 minutes, from 14 hours 47 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 33 minutes in December.

At 37.7°N that puts Carbondale between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.