What time is it in Janesville, Wisconsin?

Janesville is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.

Janesville sits at 42.68°N, 89.01°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Janesville.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Janesville it is highest at 12:47 pm today — 47 minutes after clock noon.

At 89.0°W, Janesville sits well toward the western edge of its zone, which is why the sun stays up later here than the clock suggests. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.

Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in Janesville, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 17 minutes, from 15 hours 19 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 2 minutes in December.

At 42.7°N that puts Janesville between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.