Local time · Eau Claire
What time is it in Eau Claire, Wisconsin?
3:51:09AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 72,331
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Eau Claire
Eau Claire is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Eau Claire sits at 44.82°N, 91.49°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Eau Claire.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Eau Claire it is highest at 11:50 am today — 10 minutes before clock noon.
At 91.5°W, Eau Claire 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 Eau Claire today
- Sunrise
- 7:00 am
- Sunset
- 4:39 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 39 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 36 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 39 minutes in Eau Claire, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 48 minutes, from 15 hours 36 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 47 minutes in December.
At 44.8°N that puts Eau Claire between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.