Local time · Cedar Falls
What time is it in Cedar Falls, Iowa?
3:49:30AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 41,417
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Cedar Falls
Cedar Falls is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Cedar Falls sits at 42.52°N, 92.45°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Cedar Falls.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Cedar Falls it is highest at 11:54 am today — 6 minutes before clock noon.
At 92.5°W, Cedar Falls sits 10 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 10 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Cedar Falls today
- Sunrise
- 6:58 am
- Sunset
- 4:49 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 50 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 18 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 50 minutes in Cedar Falls, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 15 minutes, from 15 hours 18 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 3 minutes in December.
At 42.5°N that puts Cedar Falls between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.