Time zone
- Currently Central Daylight Time (CDT), UTC -5
- Standard time (Central Standard Time (CST), UTC -6) starts November 1, 2020
- Chicago is 1 hour behind New York.
The IANA time zone identifier for Chicago is America/Chicago.
Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Chicago
- Sunrise: 06:19AM
- Sunset: 07:25PM
- Day length: 13h 7m
- Solar noon: 12:52PM
- The current local time in Chicago is 52 minutes ahead of apparent solar time.