What time is it in Pekin, Illinois?

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

Pekin sits at 40.57°N, 89.62°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Pekin.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Pekin it is highest at 12:50 pm today — 50 minutes after clock noon.

At 89.6°W, Pekin sits well toward the western edge of its zone, which is why the sun stays up later here than the clock suggests. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.

Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in Pekin, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 49 minutes, from 15 hours 5 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 16 minutes in December.

At 40.6°N that puts Pekin between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.