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What time is it in Mount Prospect, Illinois, United States

This page tells you the time right now in Mount Prospect, Illinois, United States, in the America/Chicago zone (−5).

Mount Prospect, United States

1:09:34 PM

Friday, 16 October 2026

UTC−5 · America/Chicago

Local time in Mount Prospect

UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active

Local time in Mount Prospect, Illinois.

The sun today

Sunrise 7:06 AM Solar noon 12:38 PM Sunset 6:10 PM Daylight 11 h 04 min Night 12 h 56 min Civil twilight 6:38 AM – 6:39 PM

Weather in Mount Prospect right now

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Mount Prospect and its neighbours

Mount Prospect at 42.0664, -87.9373 with the nearest towns within 8.6 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

60056

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.

Mount Prospect in numbers

Coordinates: 42.0664, -87.9373
Elevation: 204 m above sea level
Population: 54 747
Region: Illinois
Country: United States, North America
Capital: Washington, D.C. — 986 km away
Same name: 5 more places in the world share this name

Largest cities in Illinois

Chicago 2 664 452
Aurora 200 661
Rockford 148 278
Joliet 147 861
Naperville 147 100
Peoria 115 070

Other places named Mount Prospect

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Same time zone — America/Chicago

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Nearby places

Des Plaines — 5.8 km
Elk Grove Village — 7.5 km
Stonegate — 7.6 km
Stonebrook — 8.1 km
Donovan Glen Subdivision — 8.1 km
Wheeling — 8.1 km

Mount Prospect: clock, sun and surroundings

1 postal code divide Mount Prospect.

Clocks in Mount Prospect take America/Chicago as their zone, reading UTC−5. Daylight saving time applies: Yes.

In Mount Prospect the sun appears at 7:06 AM and disappears at 6:10 PM today. Daylight stretches 11 h 04 min.

Mount Prospect shares one clock with the nearby places Des Plaines and Elk Grove Village.

Questions and answers

What zone is used to calculate the time in Mount Prospect?: The time in Mount Prospect is calculated using America/Chicago, with an offset of −5.
Is daylight saving time in force in Mount Prospect?: Daylight saving in Mount Prospect: Yes.
At what hour does the sun rise in Mount Prospect?: At 7:06 AM.