Harrisburg in numbers
- Coordinates
- 37.7384, -88.5406
- Elevation
- 121 m above sea level
- Population
- 8 891
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1011 km away
- Same name
- 34 more places in the world share this name
Local time right now in Harrisburg, Illinois, United States appears above, in the America/Chicago time zone (−6).
Harrisburg, United States
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Harrisburg
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Harrisburg, Illinois.
Sunrise 6:23 AM Solar noon 11:39 AM Sunset 4:55 PM Daylight 10 h 33 min Night 13 h 27 min Civil twilight 5:55 AM – 5:22 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.
The time zone here in Harrisburg is America/Chicago, offset UTC−6. Does daylight saving apply? No.
Today in Harrisburg, daylight opens at 6:23 AM and closes at 4:55 PM. That span measures 10 h 33 min.
Anyone in Gaskins City or Saline County reads the same clock as Harrisburg.
Postal numbering in Harrisburg covers 12 codes.