Bancroft in numbers
- Coordinates
- 43.2927, -94.2180
- Elevation
- 360 m above sea level
- Population
- 710
- Region
- Iowa
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1517 km away
- Same name
- 23 more places in the world share this name
Find the present-moment local time in Bancroft, Iowa, United States, which uses America/Chicago (−6).
Bancroft, United States
Friday, 13 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Bancroft
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Bancroft.
Sunrise 7:09 AM Solar noon 12:02 PM Sunset 4:56 PM Daylight 9 h 48 min Night 14 h 12 min Civil twilight 6:38 AM – 5:27 PM
Loading the current weather…
Weather data by Open-Meteo, updated every 30 minutes.
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.
Mail addressed to Bancroft uses 6 postal codes.
Bancroft keeps the America/Chicago zone, which is UTC−6. Whether summer time is observed: No.
Daylight arrives in Bancroft at 7:09 AM and departs at 4:56 PM. It lasts 9 h 48 min today.
Nearby Kossuth County and Gerled follow the same clock as Bancroft.