Local time · Bowling Green
What time is it in Bowling Green, Kentucky?
3:50:35AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 79,076
- City proper
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About this clock
Bowling Green does not keep Kentucky's usual time
Most of Kentucky is on Eastern Standard Time, but Bowling Green keeps Central Standard Time — 1 hour behind the rest of the state. This is the kind of thing that catches people out, and it is why the zone is resolved from the city’s own coordinates rather than assumed from the state.
Bowling Green is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Bowling Green sits at 36.98°N, 86.43°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Bowling Green.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Bowling Green it is highest at 11:30 am today — 30 minutes before clock noon.
At 86.4°W, Bowling Green sits 14 minutes of solar time east of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 14 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Bowling Green today
- Sunrise
- 6:22 am
- Sunset
- 4:37 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 15 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 42 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 15 minutes in Bowling Green, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 5 minutes, from 14 hours 42 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 37 minutes in December.
At 37.0°N that puts Bowling Green between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.