Local time · Paducah
What time is it in Paducah, Kentucky?
3:50:06AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 26,712
- City proper
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About this clock
Paducah does not keep Kentucky's usual time
Most of Kentucky is on Eastern Standard Time, but Paducah 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.
Paducah is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Paducah sits at 37.07°N, 88.64°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Paducah.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Paducah it is highest at 11:38 am today — 22 minutes before clock noon.
At 88.6°W, Paducah sits almost exactly on Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in Paducah today
- Sunrise
- 6:31 am
- Sunset
- 4:46 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 15 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 43 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 15 minutes in Paducah, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 6 minutes, from 14 hours 43 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 37 minutes in December.
At 37.1°N that puts Paducah between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.