Prospect in numbers
- Coordinates
- 40.3195, -88.2128
- Elevation
- 220 m above sea level
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 970 km away
- Same name
- 73 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Prospect, Illinois, United States
Local time right now in Prospect, Illinois, United States appears above, in the America/Chicago time zone (−5).
Prospect, United States
Saturday, 24 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Prospect
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Prospect.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:14 AM Solar noon 12:38 PM Sunset 6:02 PM Daylight 10 h 48 min Night 13 h 12 min Civil twilight 6:47 AM – 6:30 PM
Weather in Prospect right now
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Prospect and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 06712
- 13435
- 16052
- 23960
- 38477
- 40059
- 43342
- 97536
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.
Largest cities in Illinois
Other places named Prospect
- Prospect South Australia, Australia
- Prospect Connecticut, United States
- Prospect Cayman Islands, Cayman Islands
- Prospect Kentucky, United States
- Prospect New South Wales, Australia
Same time zone — America/Chicago
- Chicago United States
- Houston United States
- San Antonio United States
- Dallas United States
- Fort Worth United States
- Austin United States
Nearby places
- Tomlinson — 1.7 km
- Rantoul — 5.0 km
- Dewey — 5.9 km
- Thomasboro — 9.0 km
- Ludlow — 10.4 km
- Dillsburg — 11.3 km
Prospect: clock, sun and surroundings
Prospect accounts for 8 postal codes.
Local timekeeping in Prospect uses America/Chicago, equal to UTC−5. Summer clock change: Yes.
The sun will rise at 7:14 AM and set at 6:02 PM in Prospect today. Daylight amounts to 10 h 48 min.
Tomlinson and Rantoul sit close to Prospect and run on the same clock.
Questions and answers
- How is Prospect's time zone listed?
- Prospect's time zone is listed as America/Chicago, with an offset of −5.
- Do the clocks in Prospect go back at any point?
- Yes.
- Sunset in Prospect is at what time?
- At 6:02 PM.