Petersburg in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.5923, -89.9212
- Elevation
- 167 m above sea level
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1117 km away
- Same name
- 46 more places in the world share this name
The current hour and minute in Petersburg, Illinois, United States are shown here, in the America/Chicago zone (−6).
Petersburg, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Petersburg
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Petersburg keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
Sunrise 6:35 AM Solar noon 11:45 AM Sunset 4:54 PM Daylight 10 h 19 min Night 13 h 41 min Civil twilight 6:07 AM – 5:22 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 12 postal codes assigned to Petersburg.
The time zone assigned to Petersburg is America/Chicago, held at UTC−6. Daylight saving time applies: No.
The sun breaks the horizon at Petersburg at 6:35 AM and leaves it at 4:54 PM. Daylight comes to 10 h 19 min.
O'Fallon and Glenview sit close to Petersburg and run on the same clock.