Monticello in numbers
- Coordinates
- 40.0278, -88.5734
- Elevation
- 201 m above sea level
- Population
- 5 509
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 998 km away
- Same name
- 51 more places in the world share this name
Find the present-moment local time in Monticello, Illinois, United States, which uses America/Chicago (−6).
Monticello, United States
Saturday, 14 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Monticello
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Monticello.
Sunrise 6:40 AM Solar noon 11:40 AM Sunset 4:40 PM Daylight 10 h 01 min Night 13 h 59 min Civil twilight 6:11 AM – 5:09 PM
Loading the current weather…
Weather data by Open-Meteo, updated every 30 minutes.
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 mail network in Monticello covers 12 codes.
Monticello sets its clocks by America/Chicago, which runs UTC−6. Daylight saving time here: No.
Today the sun rises over Monticello at 6:40 AM and sets at 4:40 PM. That is 10 h 01 min of daylight in all.
Nearby places like Piatt County and Amenia are on Monticello time.