Ely in numbers
- Coordinates
- 41.8736, -91.5852
- Elevation
- 225 m above sea level
- Population
- 2 074
- Region
- Iowa
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1274 km away
- Same name
- 10 more places in the world share this name
The current hour and minute in Ely, Iowa, United States are shown here, in the America/Chicago zone (−6).
Ely, United States
Saturday, 14 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Ely
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Ely.
Sunrise 6:56 AM Solar noon 11:52 AM Sunset 4:48 PM Daylight 9 h 52 min Night 14 h 08 min Civil twilight 6:26 AM – 5:18 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.
Sunrise today is 6:56 AM in Ely, with sunset at 4:48 PM. That works out to 9 h 52 min of light.
Ely, Western and Shueyville all run on one and the same time.
Ely operates with 4 postal codes.
Ely is placed in America/Chicago, and its offset from UTC is −6. Daylight saving observed here: No.