Bates in numbers
- Coordinates
- 39.7242, -89.8495
- Elevation
- 195 m above sea level
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1105 km away
- Same name
- 31 more places in the world share this name
The time you see here is the local time in Bates, Illinois, United States, in the America/Chicago time zone (−6).
Bates, United States
Saturday, 7 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Bates
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Bates keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
Sunrise 6:36 AM Solar noon 11:44 AM Sunset 4:53 PM Daylight 10 h 17 min Night 13 h 43 min Civil twilight 6:08 AM – 5:21 PM
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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.
Clocks in Bates take America/Chicago as their zone, reading UTC−6. Daylight saving time applies: No.
Today Bates gets sunrise at 6:36 AM and sunset at 4:53 PM. That leaves 10 h 17 min of daylight.
Travelling from Bates to Knapp or Sudduth (historical) does not change the hour.
The register holds 1 postal code for Bates.