Local time · Grand Island
What time is it in Grand Island, Nebraska?
3:51:17AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 53,250
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Grand Island
Grand Island is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Grand Island sits at 40.92°N, 98.36°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Grand Island.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Grand Island it is highest at 12:17 pm today — 17 minutes after clock noon.
At 98.4°W, Grand Island sits 33 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 33 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Grand Island today
- Sunrise
- 7:18 am
- Sunset
- 5:16 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 58 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 7 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 58 minutes in Grand Island, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 53 minutes, from 15 hours 7 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 14 minutes in December.
At 40.9°N that puts Grand Island between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.