Local time · Homewood
What time is it in Homewood, Illinois?
3:49:53AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 18,789
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Homewood
Homewood is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Homewood sits at 41.56°N, 87.66°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Homewood.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Homewood it is highest at 11:34 am today — 26 minutes before clock noon.
At 87.7°W, Homewood 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 Homewood today
- Sunrise
- 6:37 am
- Sunset
- 4:32 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 55 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 11 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 55 minutes in Homewood, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 2 minutes, from 15 hours 11 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 10 minutes in December.
At 41.6°N that puts Homewood between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.