Paxton in numbers
- Coordinates
- 40.4603, -88.0953
- Elevation
- 241 m above sea level
- Population
- 4 357
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 962 km away
- Same name
- 17 more places in the world share this name
The current local time in Paxton, Illinois, United States is displayed here for the America/Chicago time zone (−6).
Paxton, United States
Friday, 13 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Paxton
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Paxton keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
Sunrise 6:37 AM Solar noon 11:38 AM Sunset 4:38 PM Daylight 10 h 01 min Night 13 h 59 min Civil twilight 6:08 AM – 5:07 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.
There are 5 postal code zones in Paxton.
Paxton uses the America/Chicago time zone with a UTC−6 offset. Whether daylight saving time is used: No.
Today's schedule for Paxton: sunrise 6:37 AM, sunset 4:38 PM. That gives 10 h 01 min of daylight.
In Loda and Perdueville the clock agrees with Paxton.