Lafayette in numbers
- Coordinates
- 41.1081, -89.9715
- Elevation
- 243 m above sea level
- Population
- 223
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1128 km away
- Same name
- 27 more places in the world share this name
Find the present-moment local time in Lafayette, Illinois, United States, which uses America/Chicago (−6).
Lafayette, United States
Friday, 13 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Lafayette
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Lafayette keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
Sunrise 6:46 AM Solar noon 11:45 AM Sunset 4:44 PM Daylight 9 h 58 min Night 14 h 02 min Civil twilight 6:17 AM – 5:14 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.
Lafayette carries 12 postal codes.
The zone that governs Lafayette is America/Chicago at UTC−6. Whether the clocks move seasonally: No.
The sun rises over Lafayette today at 6:46 AM and slips away at 4:44 PM. That leaves 9 h 58 min of daylight.
Nothing changes on the clock between Lafayette and neighbouring Saxon (historical) or Centerville.