Council Bluffs in numbers
- Coordinates
- 41.2619, -95.8608
- Population
- 62 597
- Region
- Iowa
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1620 km away
What time is it in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States
This page displays how late it is in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States, in the America/Chicago time zone (−5).
Council Bluffs, United States
Thursday, 15 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Council Bluffs
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Council Bluffs keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:36 AM Solar noon 1:10 PM Sunset 6:44 PM Daylight 11 h 08 min Night 12 h 52 min Civil twilight 7:08 AM – 7:12 PM
Weather in Council Bluffs right now
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Council Bluffs and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 51501
- 51502
- 51503
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 Iowa
- Des Moines 214 133
- Cedar Rapids 130 405
- Davenport 102 582
- Sioux City 82 821
- Iowa City 74 220
- Waterloo 68 460
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Nearby places
- Golden Spike Mobile Home Park — 1.5 km
- Overland Mobile Home Park — 3.1 km
- Bluff Acres Mobile Home Park — 4.1 km
- Regency of Iowa Mobile Home Park — 4.1 km
- East Omaha — 4.2 km
- Country Estates Mobile Home Park — 4.9 km
About the time in Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs keeps the same time as its neighbours Golden Spike Mobile Home Park and Overland Mobile Home Park.
Council Bluffs appears under 3 postal codes.
Clocks in Council Bluffs take America/Chicago as their zone, reading UTC−5. Daylight saving time applies: Yes.
Today's daylight in Council Bluffs begins at 7:36 AM and finishes at 6:44 PM. The total is 11 h 08 min.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone governs time in Council Bluffs?
- Time in Council Bluffs follows the America/Chicago time zone, with an offset of −5.
- Is there a daylight saving time change in Council Bluffs?
- Daylight saving in Council Bluffs: Yes.
- Can you tell me the sunrise time in Council Bluffs?
- In Council Bluffs the sun rises at 7:36 AM.