Local time · Chicago
What time is it in Chicago, Illinois?
3:48:51AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 2,721,308
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Chicago
Chicago is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Chicago sits at 41.84°N, 87.68°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Chicago.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Chicago it is highest at 11:35 am today — 25 minutes before clock noon.
At 87.7°W, Chicago sits 9 minutes of solar time east of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 9 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Chicago today
- Sunrise
- 6:38 am
- Sunset
- 4:31 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 54 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 13 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 54 minutes in Chicago, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 6 minutes, from 15 hours 13 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 8 minutes in December.
At 41.8°N that puts Chicago between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.