Local time · Granite City
What time is it in Granite City, Illinois?
3:50:25AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 26,854
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Granite City
Granite City is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Granite City sits at 38.73°N, 90.13°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Granite City.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Granite City it is highest at 11:44 am today — 16 minutes before clock noon.
At 90.1°W, Granite City 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 Granite City today
- Sunrise
- 6:40 am
- Sunset
- 4:48 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 8 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 53 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 8 minutes in Granite City, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 26 minutes, from 14 hours 53 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 27 minutes in December.
At 38.7°N that puts Granite City between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.