Local time · Sioux City
What time is it in Sioux City, Iowa?
3:50:38AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 86,875
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Sioux City
Sioux City is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Sioux City sits at 42.50°N, 96.39°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Sioux City.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Sioux City it is highest at 12:09 pm today — 9 minutes after clock noon.
At 96.4°W, Sioux City sits 26 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 26 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Sioux City today
- Sunrise
- 7:14 am
- Sunset
- 5:05 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 50 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 18 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 50 minutes in Sioux City, 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 Sioux City between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.