What time is it in Melrose Park, Illinois?

Melrose Park is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.

Melrose Park sits at 41.90°N, 87.86°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Melrose Park.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Melrose Park it is highest at 12:43 pm today — 43 minutes after clock noon.

At 87.9°W, Melrose Park sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.

Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in Melrose Park, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 6 minutes, from 15 hours 14 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 7 minutes in December.

At 41.9°N that puts Melrose Park between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.