Local time · Champaign
What time is it in Champaign, Illinois?
3:49:08AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 91,961
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Champaign
Champaign is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Champaign sits at 40.11°N, 88.27°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Champaign.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Champaign it is highest at 11:37 am today — 23 minutes before clock noon.
At 88.3°W, Champaign 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 Champaign today
- Sunrise
- 6:36 am
- Sunset
- 4:38 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 2 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 2 minutes in Champaign, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 43 minutes, from 15 hours 2 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 19 minutes in December.
At 40.1°N that puts Champaign between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.