Local time · Crystal Lake
What time is it in Crystal Lake, Illinois?
3:50:19AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 41,513
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Crystal Lake
Crystal Lake is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Crystal Lake sits at 42.23°N, 88.33°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Crystal Lake.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Crystal Lake it is highest at 11:37 am today — 23 minutes before clock noon.
At 88.3°W, Crystal Lake 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 Crystal Lake 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 Crystal Lake, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 11 minutes, from 15 hours 16 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 5 minutes in December.
At 42.2°N that puts Crystal Lake between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.