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What time is it in Downs, Illinois, United States

The clock on this page follows the local time of Downs, Illinois, United States, in the America/Chicago zone (−5).

Downs, United States

Tuesday, 20 October 2026

UTC−5 · America/Chicago

Local time in Downs

UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active

What the clock shows right now in Downs.

The sun today

Sunrise 7:13 AM Solar noon 12:41 PM Sunset 6:10 PM Daylight 10 h 57 min Night 13 h 03 min Civil twilight 6:45 AM – 6:38 PM

Weather in Downs right now

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Downs and its neighbours

Shamrock Brokaw Holder Burns Littleville (historical) Randolph Bentown Colonial Meadows Downs
Downs at 40.3970, -88.8706 with the nearest towns within 9.9 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.

Downs in numbers

Coordinates
40.3970, -88.8706
Elevation
244 m above sea level
Population
988
Region
Illinois
Country
United States, North America
Capital
Washington, D.C. — 1026 km away
Same name
12 more places in the world share this name

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Other places named Downs

Same time zone — America/Chicago

Nearby places

Local time details for Downs

Across Downs, 2 postal codes are recorded.

The time zone in effect for Downs is America/Chicago, at UTC−5. Daylight saving time observed: Yes.

The sun shows itself over Downs at 7:13 AM and sets at 6:10 PM today. That is 10 h 57 min of light.

The same hours are kept in Downs and in nearby Gillum and Shamrock.

Questions and answers
Do you know which time zone Downs uses?
Downs uses the America/Chicago time zone, with an offset of −5.
Does the local time in Downs change with daylight saving?
Yes.
What is the sunset time for Downs?
6:10 PM.

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