Cruse in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.8217, -88.6778
- Elevation
- 167 m above sea level
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1007 km away
This page shows the current local time in Cruse, Illinois, United States, in the America/Chicago time zone (−6).
Cruse, United States
Friday, 6 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Cruse
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Cruse keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
Sunrise 6:28 AM Solar noon 11:40 AM Sunset 4:51 PM Daylight 10 h 22 min Night 13 h 38 min Civil twilight 6:00 AM – 5:19 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.
Postal coverage of Cruse comes to 2 codes.
Cruse keeps the America/Chicago zone, which is UTC−6. Whether summer time is observed: No.
The sun shows itself over Cruse at 6:28 AM and sets at 4:51 PM today. That is 10 h 22 min of light.
Time runs the same in Cruse and in nearby Iola and La Clede.