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What time is it in Downs, Illinois, United States

Use this page to see what time it is in Downs, Illinois, United States — the America/Chicago zone applies there (−5).

Downs, United States

Saturday, 5 September 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 6:28 AM Solar noon 12:56 PM Sunset 7:23 PM Daylight 12 h 55 min Night 11 h 05 min Civil twilight 6:00 AM – 7:51 PM

Weather in Downs right now

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Downs and its neighbours

Shamrock Brokaw Holder Burns Littleville (historical) Randolph Colonial Meadows Bentown 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

Largest cities in Illinois

Other places named Downs

Same time zone — America/Chicago

Nearby places

Local time details for Downs

2 postal codes cover the territory of Downs.

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

Sun-up in Downs is 6:28 AM today and sun-down is 7:23 PM. That gap holds 12 h 55 min of daylight.

Nearby Gillum and Shamrock follow the same clock as Downs.

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?
7:23 PM.

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