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What time is it in Lima, Illinois, United States

Current local time for Lima, Illinois, United States is listed here, in the America/Chicago time zone (−6).

Lima, United States

Friday, 13 November 2026

UTC−6 · America/Chicago

Local time in Lima

UTC−6 · no daylight saving time

Lima keeps America/Chicago clock_time.

The sun today

Sunrise 6:50 AM Solar noon 11:51 AM Sunset 4:52 PM Daylight 10 h 02 min Night 13 h 58 min Civil twilight 6:21 AM – 5:21 PM

Weather in Lima right now

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Lima and its neighbours

Tioga Marcelline Breckenridge Meyer Ursa Sutter Mendon Loraine Lima
Lima at 40.1776, -91.3785 with the nearest towns within 13.5 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.

Lima in numbers

Coordinates
40.1776, -91.3785
Elevation
199 m above sea level
Population
160
Region
Illinois
Country
United States, North America
Capital
Washington, D.C. — 1237 km away
Same name
71 more places in the world share this name

Largest cities in Illinois

Other places named Lima

Same time zone — America/Chicago

Nearby places

About the time in Lima

Postal numbering in Lima covers 9 codes.

Lima runs on America/Chicago, which sits UTC−6 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: No.

In Lima the sun appears at 6:50 AM and disappears at 4:52 PM today. Daylight stretches 10 h 02 min.

Time in Tioga and Marcelline, both close to Lima, runs the same.

Questions and answers

What time zone does local time in Lima follow?
Local time in Lima follows America/Chicago, with an offset of −6.
Does Lima use summer time?
No.
Looking for sunrise and sunset in Lima — what are they?
Sunrise at 6:50 AM, sunset at 4:52 PM.
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