Local time · Rockford
What time is it in Rockford, Illinois?
3:49:40AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 147,486
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Rockford
Rockford is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Rockford sits at 42.26°N, 89.06°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Rockford.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Rockford it is highest at 11:40 am today — 20 minutes before clock noon.
At 89.1°W, Rockford 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 Rockford today
- Sunrise
- 6:44 am
- Sunset
- 4:36 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 52 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 16 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 52 minutes in Rockford, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 11 minutes, from 15 hours 16 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 5 minutes in December.
At 42.3°N that puts Rockford between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.