Wakefield in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.8400, -88.2439
- Elevation
- 150 m above sea level
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 970 km away
- Same name
- 41 more places in the world share this name
See what time it currently is in Wakefield, Illinois, United States — the time zone there is America/Chicago (−6).
Wakefield, United States
Saturday, 7 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Wakefield
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Wakefield keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
Sunrise 6:28 AM Solar noon 11:38 AM Sunset 4:48 PM Daylight 10 h 20 min Night 13 h 40 min Civil twilight 6:00 AM – 5:16 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.
Addressing within Wakefield draws on 9 postal codes.
Wakefield is placed in America/Chicago, and its offset from UTC is −6. Daylight saving observed here: No.
The sun is up at 6:28 AM in Wakefield and down again at 4:48 PM. Between those times there are 10 h 20 min of daylight.
Nearby places that share Wakefield's clock include Wendelin and Passport.