Monroe County in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.2786, -90.1774
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1143 km away
- Same name
- 16 more places in the world share this name
Learn the current time in Monroe County, Illinois, United States, a place in the America/Chicago time zone (−6).
Monroe County, United States
Friday, 13 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Monroe County
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Monroe County.
Sunrise 6:41 AM Solar noon 11:46 AM Sunset 4:51 PM Daylight 10 h 10 min Night 13 h 50 min Civil twilight 6:13 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.
The number of postal codes covering Monroe County is 3.
Monroe County runs on America/Chicago, which sits UTC−6 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: No.
Monroe County sees first light at 6:41 AM today and the sun sets at 4:51 PM. Daylight totals 10 h 10 min.
The hours shown for Monroe County apply equally in Wartburg and Precinct 12.