Local time · Madisonville
What time is it in Madisonville, Kentucky?
3:50:42AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 19,502
- City proper
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About this clock
Madisonville does not keep Kentucky's usual time
Most of Kentucky is on Eastern Standard Time, but Madisonville 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.
Madisonville is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Madisonville sits at 37.34°N, 87.50°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Madisonville.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Madisonville it is highest at 11:34 am today — 26 minutes before clock noon.
At 87.5°W, Madisonville 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 Madisonville today
- Sunrise
- 6:27 am
- Sunset
- 4:41 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 14 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 44 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 14 minutes in Madisonville, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 9 minutes, from 14 hours 44 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 35 minutes in December.
At 37.3°N that puts Madisonville between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.