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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 (−5).

Anchor, United States

Sunday, 25 October 2026

UTC−5 · America/Chicago

Local time in Anchor

UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active

Anchor keeps America/Chicago clock_time.

The sun today

Sunrise 7:17 AM Solar noon 12:39 PM Sunset 6:01 PM Daylight 10 h 44 min Night 13 h 16 min Civil twilight 6:49 AM – 6:29 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−5 from Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving time here: Yes.

Sun-up in Anchor is 7:17 AM today and sun-down is 6:01 PM. That gap holds 10 h 44 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 −5.
Is the time in Anchor adjusted seasonally?
Yes.
Sunrise in Anchor is at what time?
At 7:17 AM.

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