Sangamon in numbers
- Coordinates
- 39.8667, -88.8559
- Elevation
- 208 m above sea level
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1021 km away
What time is it in Sangamon, Illinois, United States
This page shows, minute by minute, the local time in Sangamon, Illinois, United States, in the America/Chicago zone (−5).
Sangamon, United States
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Sangamon
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Sangamon keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:20 AM Solar noon 12:40 PM Sunset 6:01 PM Daylight 10 h 41 min Night 13 h 19 min Civil twilight 6:52 AM – 6:29 PM
Weather in Sangamon right now
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Sangamon and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 62526 Decatur — 7.1 km away
- 62554 Oreana — 7.6 km away
- 62521 Decatur — 8.3 km away
- 62501 Argenta — 8.6 km away
- 62523 Decatur — 8.8 km away
- 62549 Mt Zion — 10.7 km away
- 62535 Forsyth — 11.6 km away
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
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
- Faries Park (historical) — 1.9 km
- Oakley — 4.4 km
- Larkdale — 5.4 km
- Long Creek — 6.1 km
- Chapin — 7.2 km
- Longview Place — 8.0 km
Local time details for Sangamon
The clock does not change between Sangamon, Faries Park (historical) and Oakley.
Mail delivery in Sangamon relies on 7 postal codes.
Clocks in Sangamon follow America/Chicago, an offset of UTC−5 from Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving time here: Yes.
Sunrise happens at 7:20 AM in Sangamon today and sunset at 6:01 PM. That marks 10 h 41 min of daylight.
Questions and answers
- What zone is Sangamon in for local time?
- For local time, Sangamon is in America/Chicago, with an offset of −5.
- Does the time in Sangamon shift by an hour at any point in the year?
- Yes.
- Which time marks sunrise in Sangamon?
- 7:20 AM marks sunrise.