What time is it in Rolling Meadows, Illinois?

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

Rolling Meadows sits at 42.07°N, 88.03°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Rolling Meadows.

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

At 88.0°W, Rolling Meadows sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.

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

At 42.1°N that puts Rolling Meadows between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.