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What time is it in Watkins Ford, Illinois, United States

Use this page to see what time it is in Watkins Ford, Illinois, United States — the America/Chicago zone applies there (−5).

Watkins Ford, United States

6:57:53 AM

Friday, 30 October 2026

UTC−5 · America/Chicago

Local time in Watkins Ford

UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active

What the clock shows right now in Watkins Ford.

The sun today

Sunrise 7:18 AM Solar noon 12:39 PM Sunset 6:00 PM Daylight 10 h 42 min Night 13 h 18 min Civil twilight 6:51 AM – 6:27 PM

Weather in Watkins Ford right now

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Watkins Ford and its neighbours

Watkins Ford at 37.5359, -88.6312 with the nearest towns within 11.0 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

62928 Eddyville — 7.5 km away
62967 New Burnside — 11.1 km away
62987 Stonefort — 12.0 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.

Watkins Ford in numbers

Coordinates: 37.5359, -88.6312
Elevation: 159 m above sea level
Region: Illinois
Country: United States, North America
Capital: Washington, D.C. — 1023 km away

Largest cities in Illinois

Chicago 2 664 452
Aurora 200 661
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Naperville 147 100
Peoria 115 070

Same time zone — America/Chicago

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Nearby places

Mccormick — 3.8 km
Eddyville — 5.6 km
Abbot — 6.4 km
Delwood — 7.2 km
Oldtown — 8.9 km
Glendale — 9.6 km

Time and daylight in Watkins Ford

Time in Mccormick and Eddyville, both close to Watkins Ford, runs the same.

Watkins Ford takes in 3 postal codes.

Watkins Ford stands in America/Chicago, an offset of UTC−5 from Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving: Yes.

Today's daylight in Watkins Ford begins at 7:18 AM and finishes at 6:00 PM. The total is 10 h 42 min.

Questions and answers

What time zone value is associated with Watkins Ford?: The value associated with Watkins Ford is America/Chicago, with an offset of −5.
Does Watkins Ford observe a seasonal time shift?: Daylight saving in Watkins Ford: Yes.
Do you know the time of sunrise in Watkins Ford?: Yes, it is 7:18 AM.