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
What time is it in Bates, Illinois, United States
The time you see here is the local time in Bates, Illinois, United States, in the America/Chicago time zone (−5).
Bates, United States
Saturday, 17 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Bates
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Bates keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:13 AM Solar noon 12:46 PM Sunset 6:19 PM Daylight 11 h 06 min Night 12 h 54 min Civil twilight 6:45 AM – 6:46 PM
Weather in Bates right now
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Bates and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 97817
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.
Largest cities in Illinois
Other places named Bates
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- Bates East Java, Indonesia
Same time zone — America/Chicago
- Chicago United States
- Houston United States
- San Antonio United States
- Dallas United States
- Fort Worth United States
- Austin United States
Nearby places
- Knapp — 3.0 km
- Sudduth (historical) — 3.6 km
- New Berlin — 5.2 km
- Loami — 5.4 km
- Berlin — 6.0 km
- Pasfield — 6.2 km
Local time details for Bates
Clocks in Bates take America/Chicago as their zone, reading UTC−5. Daylight saving time applies: Yes.
Today Bates gets sunrise at 7:13 AM and sunset at 6:19 PM. That leaves 11 h 06 min of daylight.
Travelling from Bates to Knapp or Sudduth (historical) does not change the hour.
The register holds 1 postal code for Bates.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone is assigned to Bates?
- The time zone assigned to Bates is America/Chicago, with an offset of −5.
- Does the time in Bates vary with the season?
- Daylight saving time in Bates: Yes.
- When does the sun disappear in Bates?
- It disappears at 6:19 PM.