Jefferson City in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.3787, -89.0434
- Elevation
- 166 m above sea level
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1044 km away
- Same name
- 3 more places in the world share this name
This page keeps the current time in Jefferson City, Illinois, United States, according to the America/Chicago zone (−6).
Jefferson City, United States
Saturday, 7 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Jefferson City
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Jefferson City.
Sunrise 6:30 AM Solar noon 11:41 AM Sunset 4:52 PM Daylight 10 h 22 min Night 13 h 38 min Civil twilight 6:02 AM – 5:20 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.
12 postal codes have been allocated to Jefferson City.
The time zone used in Jefferson City is America/Chicago, set at UTC−6. Whether the clocks shift for daylight saving: No.
Jefferson City has sunrise at 6:30 AM today and sunset at 4:52 PM. Light holds for 10 h 22 min.
Close to Jefferson City, the towns of Boyd and Woodlawn show the same time.