Indexed entity
Chicago is the chicago-US record in United States: country slug united-states, city slug chicago, ISO US, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Chicago.
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Live local time
Chicago, United States
05:44:32 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · America/Chicago
Quick answer
It is currently 05:44:32 AM (CDT, UTC-05:00) in Chicago, United States — Early morning.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
56°F
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
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Wed
82°F
58°F
Thu
66°F
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Code
United States Dollar
Quoted as the global reference currency.
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
05:17 AM
Sunset
08:19 PM
Day length
15h 2m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Chicago, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:44 AM UTC.
Current local time
05:44:32 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CDT
America/Chicago · UTC-05:00
Next holiday
Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, June 19, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Chicago right now
Nearest airport
MDW
Chicago Midway International Airport · 11 km
Indexed airports
94
Curated airport references available for United States
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Chicago, United States.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 05:44 CDT
No reference-city overlap right now
Chicago is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC-05:00
Zone label
CDT
London
11:44 AM / +6h
New York
06:44 AM / +1h
Los Angeles
03:44 AM / -2h
Schedule risk
Juneteenth National Independence Day on Friday, June 19, 2026
Travel cue
MDW Chicago, 11 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:17 AM to 08:19 PM, with solar noon around 12:48 PM and total daylight of 15h 2m.
Mapped location
41.85°N, 87.65°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:44 AM / +6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:44 AM / +1h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:44 AM / -2h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:44 PM / +9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:44 PM / +13h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Chicago.
MDW · Chicago Midway International Airport
Chicago
ORD · Chicago O'Hare International Airport
Chicago
MKE · General Mitchell International Airport
Milwaukee
GRR · Gerald R. Ford International Airport
Grand Rapids
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use America/Chicago for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC-05:00; seasonal offset, UTC-06:00 in January and UTC-05:00 in July.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Chicago right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
Juneteenth National Independence Day on Friday, June 19, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: MDW Chicago, 11 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
Next detected clock change: November 1, 2026, moving back from 2026-11-01 01:59 (CDT) to 2026-11-01 01:00 (CST).
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Chicago has a detected clock-change edge. Re-check recurring meetings within two weeks of November 1, 2026, especially if the other city does not change clocks on the same weekend.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Chicago.
Canonical route
/time/united-states/chicago/
Catalog identity
chicago-US · US · America
Coordinate cell
41.85°N, 87.65°W · lat 41.850 · lon -87.650 · cell 4185:-8765
Population record
2,664,452 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
America/Chicago · CDT · UTC-05:00
January / July offsets
UTC-06:00 / UTC-05:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Mississauga, Canada · 680 km
Nearest world hub
New York · 1,146 km
Closest airport references
MDW Chicago 11 km · ORD Chicago 25 km · MKE Milwaukee 124 km · GRR Grand Rapids 209 km
Zone peer roster
Houston, United States · San Antonio, United States · Dallas, United States
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Chicago: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Chicago is the chicago-US record in United States: country slug united-states, city slug chicago, ISO US, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Chicago.
41.85°N, 87.65°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 41 and longitude band -88; exact decimal pair 41.85003, -87.65005.
United States: official name United States of America; capital Washington, D.C.; region Americas; subregion North America; country population 340,110,988; area 9,525,067 km²; languages English; currencies USD United States dollar. This is the country layer behind the Chicago clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
United States: The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States also asserts sovereignty over five major island territories and various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's third-largest land area and third-largest population, exceeding 341 million. Source: Wikipedia.
Mississauga [mississauga-CA, CA, America/Toronto, 680 km]; Toronto [toronto-CA, CA, America/Toronto, 704 km]; Kenora [kenora-CA, CA, America/Winnipeg, 1027 km]; Ottawa [ottawa-CA, CA, America/Toronto, 1039 km]; Philadelphia [philadelphia-US, US, America/New_York, 1069 km]; Steinbach [steinbach-CA, CA, America/Winnipeg, 1103 km]; New York City [new-york-city-US, US, America/New_York, 1146 km]; Brooklyn [brooklyn-US, US, America/New_York, 1152 km]
Chicago is part of this indexed country cluster: New York City [new-york-city-US, America/New_York, pop 8,804,190]; Los Angeles [los-angeles-US, America/Los_Angeles, pop 3,820,914]; Brooklyn [brooklyn-US, America/New_York, pop 2,736,074]; Chicago [chicago-US, America/Chicago, pop 2,664,452]; Queens [queens-US, America/New_York, pop 2,316,841]; Houston [houston-US, America/Chicago, pop 2,314,157]; Phoenix [phoenix-US, America/Phoenix, pop 1,650,070]; Philadelphia [philadelphia-US, America/New_York, pop 1,573,916]; San Antonio [san-antonio-US, America/Chicago, pop 1,526,656]; San Diego [san-diego-US, America/Los_Angeles, pop 1,404,452].
New York 1,146 km; Los Angeles 2,802 km; London 6,356 km; São Paulo 8,407 km; Tokyo 10,143 km; Dubai 11,641 km; Sydney 14,874 km; Singapore 15,074 km
MDW Chicago Midway International Airport in Chicago [US, 11 km]; ORD Chicago O'Hare International Airport in Chicago [US, 25 km]; MKE General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee [US, 124 km]; GRR Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids [US, 209 km]; IND Indianapolis International Airport in Indianapolis [US, 263 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include ABQ Albuquerque International Sunport in Albuquerque [US]; ALB Albany International Airport in Albany [US]; ANC Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Anchorage [US]; ATL Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta [US]; AUS Austin Bergstrom International Airport in Austin [US]; BDL Bradley International Airport in Hartford [US]; BHM Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Birmingham [US]; BNA Nashville International Airport in Nashville [US]; BOI Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field in Boise [US]; BOS Boston Logan International Airport in Boston [US].
Chicago renders Jun 2, 2026 · 05:44 CDT; CDT at UTC-05:00; January UTC-06:00; July UTC-05:00; next holiday Juneteenth National Independence Day on 2026-06-19.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Chicago.
Chicago is a manual-dossier city; rank #4 of 29 retained United States city pages. The route is /time/united-states/chicago/ and the city id is chicago-US.
Chicago has 16 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Chicago is pinned at 41.85°N, 87.65°W; Mississauga (680 km); New York (1,146 km).
America/Chicago resolves to seasonal offset split: UTC-06:00 in January and UTC-05:00 in July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside United States.
MDW Chicago Midway International Airport (11 km) · Juneteenth National Independence Day (Friday, June 19, 2026) · 94 country airport references · 16 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Chicago uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Chicago: Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. Located on the western shore of Lake Michigan, it is the third-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 2.74 million at the 2020 census. The Chicago metropolitan area has 9.41 million residents and is the third-largest metropolitan area in the country. Chicago is the seat of Cook County, the second-most populous county in the U.S.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC-06:00 and summer UTC-05:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone America/Chicago.
Chicago is listed in the dataset snapshot as 5 hours behind UTC (offset -05:00). 6 hours behind London, 14 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -87.65°, Chicago's mean solar noon falls about 51 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled -05:00 civil offset; during the alternate seasonal offset this shifts by about one hour on the clock — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Chicago sits at 41.85°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 3 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 57 minutes on the December solstice.
Chicago sits at 41.85°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 3 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 57 minutes on the December solstice.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 16 (15h 13m)
Shortest day
Dec 17 (9h 8m)
Year-round average
12h 13m
Annual swing
6h 5m
See the full daylight curve for Chicago at /sun/chicago/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Chicago local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Chicago |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 00:00 - 08:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 22:30 - 06:30 (next day) |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 20:00 - 04:00 (next day) |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 20:00 - 04:00 (next day) |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 19:00 - 03:00 (next day) |
IANA time zones in country
8
Public holidays in 2026
16
Chicago is the third-most populous city in the United States with about 2.7 million residents in the city proper and roughly 9.4 million in the Chicago metropolitan area. Central Standard Time (CST, UTC-6) and Central Daylight Time (CDT, UTC-5) apply with DST on the US schedule. The CME Group (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) is the world's largest financial derivatives exchange by volume, and the Chicago Board of Trade (also part of CME Group) is one of the world's oldest futures and options exchanges. Chicago O'Hare International Airport has consistently ranked among the world's busiest airports by aircraft movements, and the city is the corporate headquarters of Boeing, McDonald's, United Airlines, and Walgreens. The Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) was the world's tallest building from 1973 to 1998.
Reference fields include Chicago's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 05:44:32 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Chicago (UTC-05:00, CDT).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:17 AM to 08:19 PM
Day length 15h 2m · Solar noon 12:48 PM
Next country holiday
Juneteenth National Independence Day
Friday, June 19, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Chicago local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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187 days to go
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218 days to go
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272 days to go
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5 days to go
Apple WWDC 2026
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6 days to go
Population
2.7M
Coordinates
41.85, -87.65
Timezone
America/Chicago
Indexed airports
94
Capital
Washington, D.C.
Languages
English
Currency
USD ($)
Country area
9,525,067 km²
Chicago, United States (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: America/Chicago (CDT, UTC-05:00); population ~2.7M.
Coordinates: 41.85°N, 87.65°W. Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, ~4645 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:17 AM and sets around 08:19 PM in Chicago — about 15h 2m of daylight. United States observes daylight saving time on this zone, so the offset shifts seasonally.
Mississauga (680 km from Chicago) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 94 curated airport pages indexed for United States.
Next national holiday: Juneteenth National Independence Day, 2026-06-19.
Chicago is indexed as a America city in the US country record, using America/Chicago as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/united-states/chicago/.
Location context: 41.85°N, 87.65°W; population 2,664,452; nearest indexed city Mississauga is about 680 km away; closest reference hub is New York, about 1,146 km away.
Country planning context: capital Washington, D.C.; subregion North America; languages English; currency USD ($); area 9,525,067 km²; 94 curated airport references; next holiday Juneteenth National Independence Day on 2026-06-19.
Observes daylight saving time. Civil clocks shift forward by one hour during the local summer, swinging between standard UTC-06:00 and summer UTC-05:00. Transitions follow the IANA zone America/Chicago.
Chicago is listed in the dataset snapshot as 5 hours behind UTC (offset -05:00). 6 hours behind London, 14 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -87.65°, Chicago's mean solar noon falls about 51 minutes after civil 12:00 under the sampled -05:00 civil offset; during the alternate seasonal offset this shifts by about one hour on the clock — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Chicago sits at 41.85°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 3 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 57 minutes on the December solstice.
Major metropolitan area with around 2.7 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Chicago: New York City (+1h), Sydney (+15h), Tokyo (+14h), San Francisco (−2h), Paris (+7h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
united-states
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CDT
IANA Zone
America/Chicago
UTC Offset
UTC-05:00
DST Status
Observing DST
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC-05:00
Brazil, United States, Mexico, Canada, Colombia, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Panama
Other cities in this timezone
London
+6h
New York
+1h
Los Angeles
-2h
Dubai
+9h
Singapore
+13h
Tokyo
+14h
Sydney
+15h
São Paulo
+2h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Chicago.
Public-disclosure tracker
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Chicago: closest hubs New York (~1,146 km), Los Angeles (~2,802 km), London (~6,356 km); farthest indexed hub Singapore (~15,074 km).
Chicago sits inside United States — the North America subregion, capital Washington, D.C., languages English, currency USD ($).
Closest indexed cities to Chicago: Mississauga (680 km), Toronto (704 km), Kenora (1027 km), Ottawa (1039 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Chicago: Juneteenth National Independence Day, Independence Day, Labour Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for United States.
Closest curated airport references from Chicago: MDW Chicago (11 km), ORD Chicago (25 km), MKE Milwaukee (124 km).
US cities often rank because people want to know whether the workday still overlaps with Europe, India, or APAC.
Chicago Midway International AirportMDW
Chicago · 11 km from Chicago
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Chicago O'Hare International AirportORD
Chicago · 25 km from Chicago
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
General Mitchell International AirportMKE
Milwaukee · 124 km from Chicago
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 55m
Gerald R. Ford International AirportGRR
Grand Rapids · 209 km from Chicago
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 1m
Indianapolis International AirportIND
Indianapolis · 263 km from Chicago
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 5m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:44 AM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:44 AM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:44 AM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:44 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:44 PM | +13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:44 PM | +14h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:44 PM | +15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:44 AM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
Chicago Midway International AirportMDW
Chicago · 11 km away
Chicago O'Hare International AirportORD
Chicago · 25 km away
General Mitchell International AirportMKE
Milwaukee · 124 km away
Gerald R. Ford International AirportGRR
Grand Rapids · 209 km away
Indianapolis International AirportIND
Indianapolis · 263 km away
Chicago is in the America/Chicago timezone (CDT), with a UTC offset of -05:00.
Chicago uses seasonal daylight saving rules in America/Chicago. The current offset is UTC-05:00; January resolves to UTC-06:00 and July resolves to UTC-05:00.
The current UTC offset for Chicago is UTC-05:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Chicago, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 05:44 CDT. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Chicago sits at 41.85°N, 87.65°W in United States, with about 2.7M residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Chicago is New York, about 1,146 km away as the crow flies.
Mississauga is the closest indexed city, roughly 680 km from Chicago.
Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW) is the closest curated airport reference, about 11 km from Chicago.
Juneteenth National Independence Day is the next upcoming holiday in United States, on Friday, June 19, 2026.
Chicago uses United States dollar (USD, symbol $) as the local currency of United States.
The longest day of 2026 in Chicago falls on Jun 16 with about 15h 13m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 17 with 9h 8m; the year-round average is 12h 13m.
United States spans 8 IANA time zones in total; Chicago's canonical zone for this page is America/Chicago.
In Chicago local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 08:00-16:00; London 03:00-11:00; Frankfurt 02:00-10:00; Dubai 00:00-08:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.