Local time · Ottumwa
What time is it in Ottumwa, Iowa?
3:50:15AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 25,648
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Ottumwa
Ottumwa is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Ottumwa sits at 41.02°N, 92.42°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Ottumwa.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Ottumwa it is highest at 11:53 am today — 7 minutes before clock noon.
At 92.4°W, Ottumwa 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 Ottumwa today
- Sunrise
- 6:55 am
- Sunset
- 4:52 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 57 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 8 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 57 minutes in Ottumwa, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 55 minutes, from 15 hours 8 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 13 minutes in December.
At 41.0°N that puts Ottumwa between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.