Fern in numbers
- Coordinates
- 42.4847, -92.7705
- Elevation
- 323 m above sea level
- Region
- Iowa
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1383 km away
- Same name
- 13 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Fern, Iowa, United States
The time now in Fern, Iowa, United States is shown here, following the America/Chicago time zone (−5).
Fern, United States
Monday, 26 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Fern
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Fern.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:38 AM Solar noon 12:56 PM Sunset 6:14 PM Daylight 10 h 36 min Night 13 h 24 min Civil twilight 7:09 AM – 6:43 PM
Weather in Fern right now
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Fern and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 50673 Stout — 6.7 km away
- 50665 Parkersburg — 9.6 km away
- 50642 Holland — 9.6 km away
- 50638 Grundy Center — 13.1 km away
- 50604 Aplington — 14.2 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.
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
Other places named Fern
- Fern Upper Austria, Austria
- Fern England, United Kingdom
- Fern Scotland, United Kingdom
- Fern Saint James Parish, Jamaica
- Fern Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
Same time zone — America/Chicago
- Chicago United States
- Houston United States
- San Antonio United States
- Dallas United States
- Fort Worth United States
- Austin United States
Nearby places
- Sinclair — 3.6 km
- Lear — 5.4 km
- Swanton — 6.6 km
- Stout — 6.7 km
- Buck Grove — 7.3 km
- Grundy County — 9.4 km
Fern: clock, sun and surroundings
There are 5 postal code zones in Fern.
Fern keeps time under America/Chicago. That places it at UTC−5, with daylight saving time Yes.
Daylight in Fern today runs from 7:38 AM to 6:14 PM. The stretch measures 10 h 36 min.
Places close to Fern, among them Sinclair and Lear, share its time.
Questions and answers
- What time zone applies in Fern?
- In Fern, the applicable time zone is America/Chicago, with an offset of −5.
- Do clocks change in Fern during the year?
- Daylight saving in Fern: Yes.
- Please give the sunrise time for Fern.
- The sun rises at 7:38 AM.