Local time · Wichita
What time is it in Wichita, Kansas?
3:50:53AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 400,991
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Wichita
Wichita is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Wichita sits at 37.69°N, 97.35°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Wichita.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Wichita it is highest at 12:13 pm today — 13 minutes after clock noon.
At 97.3°W, Wichita sits 29 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 29 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Wichita today
- Sunrise
- 7:07 am
- Sunset
- 5:19 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 12 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 46 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 12 minutes in Wichita, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 13 minutes, from 14 hours 46 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 33 minutes in December.
At 37.7°N that puts Wichita between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.