Local time · St. John
What time is it in St. John, Indiana?
3:49:29AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 24,250
- City proper
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About this clock
St. John does not keep Indiana's usual time
Most of Indiana is on Eastern Standard Time, but St. John keeps Central Standard Time — 1 hour behind the rest of the state. This is the kind of thing that catches people out, and it is why the zone is resolved from the city’s own coordinates rather than assumed from the state.
St. John is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
St. John sits at 41.44°N, 87.47°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in St. John.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over St. John it is highest at 11:34 am today — 26 minutes before clock noon.
At 87.5°W, St. John sits 10 minutes of solar time east of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 10 minutes before noon.
Daylight in St. John today
- Sunrise
- 6:36 am
- Sunset
- 4:31 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 56 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 11 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 56 minutes in St. John, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours, from 15 hours 11 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 10 minutes in December.
At 41.4°N that puts St. John between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.