Local time · Cedar Rapids
What time is it in Cedar Rapids, Iowa?
3:49:20AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 137,904
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Cedar Rapids sits at 41.96°N, 91.68°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Cedar Rapids.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Cedar Rapids it is highest at 11:50 am today — 10 minutes before clock noon.
At 91.7°W, Cedar Rapids 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 Cedar Rapids today
- Sunrise
- 6:54 am
- Sunset
- 4:47 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 53 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 14 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 53 minutes in Cedar Rapids, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 7 minutes, from 15 hours 14 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 7 minutes in December.
At 42.0°N that puts Cedar Rapids between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.