Cortland in numbers
- Coordinates
- 41.9200, -88.6887
- Elevation
- 275 m above sea level
- Population
- 4 325
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1041 km away
- Same name
- 5 more places in the world share this name
Local time right now in Cortland, Illinois, United States appears above, in the America/Chicago time zone (−6).
Cortland, United States
Friday, 13 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Cortland
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Cortland, Illinois.
Sunrise 6:43 AM Solar noon 11:40 AM Sunset 4:37 PM Daylight 9 h 54 min Night 14 h 06 min Civil twilight 6:13 AM – 5:07 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.
Cortland is split into 5 postal code areas.
Cortland works to America/Chicago time, set at UTC−6. Daylight saving time applies: No.
Sunrise happens at 6:43 AM in Cortland today and sunset at 4:37 PM. That marks 9 h 54 min of daylight.
Clocks in Dekalb and Edgebrook Mobile Home Park read the same as clocks in Cortland.