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What time is it in Anchor, Illinois, United States

Local time in Anchor, Illinois, United States is shown on this page, based on the America/Chicago time zone (−6).

Anchor, United States

Sunday, 15 November 2026

UTC−6 · America/Chicago

Local time in Anchor

UTC−6 · no daylight saving time

Anchor keeps America/Chicago clock_time.

The sun today

Sunrise 6:42 AM Solar noon 11:40 AM Sunset 4:38 PM Daylight 9 h 56 min Night 14 h 04 min Civil twilight 6:13 AM – 5:07 PM

Weather in Anchor right now

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Anchor and its neighbours

Cropsey Colfax Sibley Garber Strawn Arrowsmith Cooksville Saybrook Derby Anchor
Anchor at 40.5681, -88.5356 with the nearest towns within 16.1 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.

Anchor in numbers

Coordinates
40.5681, -88.5356
Elevation
237 m above sea level
Population
146
Region
Illinois
Country
United States, North America
Capital
Washington, D.C. — 1000 km away
Same name
8 more places in the world share this name

Largest cities in Illinois

Other places named Anchor

Same time zone — America/Chicago

Nearby places

Anchor: clock, sun and surroundings

There is 1 postal code zones in Anchor.

Clocks in Anchor follow America/Chicago, an offset of UTC−6 from Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving time here: No.

Sun-up in Anchor is 6:42 AM today and sun-down is 4:38 PM. That gap holds 9 h 56 min of daylight.

The time in Anchor is also the time in nearby Cropsey and Colfax.

Questions and answers
Which time zone does Anchor use?
Anchor uses America/Chicago, which has an offset of −6.
Is the time in Anchor adjusted seasonally?
No.
Sunrise in Anchor is at what time?
At 6:42 AM.

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