What time is it in Shawnee, Kansas?

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

Shawnee sits at 39.02°N, 94.81°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Shawnee.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Shawnee it is highest at 1:10 pm today — 70 minutes after clock noon.

At 94.8°W, Shawnee 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 2 minutes in Shawnee, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 29 minutes, from 14 hours 55 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 25 minutes in December.

At 39.0°N that puts Shawnee between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.