West Salem in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.5209, -88.0048
- Elevation
- 160 m above sea level
- Population
- 872
- Region
- Illinois
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 952 km away
- Same name
- 4 more places in the world share this name
This page shows, minute by minute, the local time in West Salem, Illinois, United States, in the America/Chicago zone (−6).
West Salem, United States
Monday, 2 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in West Salem
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in West Salem, Illinois.
Sunrise 6:21 AM Solar noon 11:37 AM Sunset 4:53 PM Daylight 10 h 32 min Night 13 h 28 min Civil twilight 5:53 AM – 5:20 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.
Today's daylight in West Salem begins at 6:21 AM and finishes at 4:53 PM. The total is 10 h 32 min.
Same time, different place: Mills Prairie (historical) and Samsville near West Salem.
Postal codes in West Salem number 3.
In West Salem the time zone is America/Chicago and the offset is UTC−6. Daylight saving time used: No.