Local time · McHenry
What time is it in McHenry, Illinois?
3:48:50AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 28,825
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in McHenry
McHenry is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
McHenry sits at 42.34°N, 88.29°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in McHenry.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over McHenry it is highest at 11:37 am today — 23 minutes before clock noon.
At 88.3°W, McHenry 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 McHenry today
- Sunrise
- 6:41 am
- Sunset
- 4:33 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 51 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 17 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 51 minutes in McHenry, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 12 minutes, from 15 hours 17 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 5 minutes in December.
At 42.3°N that puts McHenry between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.