What time is it in Council Bluffs, Iowa?

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

Council Bluffs sits at 41.24°N, 95.85°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Council Bluffs.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Council Bluffs it is highest at 1:15 pm today — 75 minutes after clock noon.

At 95.9°W, Council Bluffs sits well toward the western edge of its zone, which is why the sun stays up later here than the clock suggests. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.

Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in Council Bluffs, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 57 minutes, from 15 hours 9 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 12 minutes in December.

At 41.2°N that puts Council Bluffs between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.