What time is it in Lansing, Illinois?
7:52:58 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Central Daylight Time, UTC−5:00.
- Time zone
- Central Daylight Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−5:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Population
- 28,107
Daylight saving in Lansing
Lansing is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Lansing sits at 41.57°N, 87.55°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Lansing.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Lansing it is highest at 12:41 pm today — 41 minutes after clock noon.
At 87.5°W, Lansing sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in Lansing today
- Sunrise
- 6:41 am
- Sunset
- 6:42 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 1 minute
- Longest day
- 15 hours 11 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in Lansing, and the day is getting shorter by 3 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 Lansing between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.