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What time is it in Des Plaines, Illinois, United States

Below you can see what the time is in Des Plaines, Illinois, United States now, in the America/Chicago zone (−6).

Des Plaines, United States

Thursday, 12 November 2026

UTC−6 · America/Chicago

Local time in Des Plaines

UTC−6 · no daylight saving time

What the clock shows right now in Des Plaines.

The sun today

Sunrise 6:39 AM Solar noon 11:37 AM Sunset 4:35 PM Daylight 9 h 56 min Night 14 h 04 min Civil twilight 6:09 AM – 5:05 PM

Weather in Des Plaines right now

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Des Plaines and its neighbours

Rosemont Niles Elk Grove Village Golf Stonegate Des Plaines
Des Plaines at 42.0334, -87.8834 with the nearest towns within 8.9 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.

Des Plaines in numbers

Coordinates
42.0334, -87.8834
Population
58 677
Region
Illinois
Country
United States, North America
Capital
Washington, D.C. — 981 km away

Largest cities in Illinois

Same time zone — America/Chicago

Nearby places

Time and daylight in Des Plaines

Des Plaines counts hours by America/Chicago, which stands at UTC−6. Whether daylight saving is kept: No.

Sunrise happens at 6:39 AM in Des Plaines today and sunset at 4:35 PM. That marks 9 h 56 min of daylight.

Time in Des Plaines applies without change in Rosemont and Niles nearby.

Des Plaines accounts for 4 postal codes.

Questions and answers

What time zone is assigned to Des Plaines?
Des Plaines is assigned to the America/Chicago time zone, with an offset of −6.
Does Des Plaines take part in daylight saving time?
Daylight saving time in Des Plaines: No.
Sunset in Des Plaines is at what time?
At 4:35 PM.
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