Local time · Owensboro
What time is it in Owensboro, 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
- 60,675
- City proper
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About this clock
Owensboro does not keep Kentucky's usual time
Most of Kentucky is on Eastern Standard Time, but Owensboro 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.
Owensboro is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Owensboro sits at 37.76°N, 87.12°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Owensboro.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Owensboro it is highest at 11:32 am today — 28 minutes before clock noon.
At 87.1°W, Owensboro sits 12 minutes of solar time east of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 12 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Owensboro today
- Sunrise
- 6:26 am
- Sunset
- 4:38 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 12 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 47 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 12 minutes in Owensboro, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 14 minutes, from 14 hours 47 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 33 minutes in December.
At 37.8°N that puts Owensboro between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.