Local time · Hopkinsville
What time is it in Hopkinsville, Kentucky?
3:51:31AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 30,800
- City proper
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About this clock
Hopkinsville does not keep Kentucky's usual time
Most of Kentucky is on Eastern Standard Time, but Hopkinsville 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.
Hopkinsville is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Hopkinsville sits at 36.84°N, 87.47°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Hopkinsville.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Hopkinsville it is highest at 11:34 am today — 26 minutes before clock noon.
At 87.5°W, Hopkinsville sits 10 minutes of solar time east of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 10 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Hopkinsville today
- Sunrise
- 6:26 am
- Sunset
- 4:41 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 16 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 41 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 16 minutes in Hopkinsville, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 3 minutes, from 14 hours 41 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 38 minutes in December.
At 36.8°N that puts Hopkinsville between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.