Rock Rapids in numbers
- Coordinates
- 43.4272, -96.1759
- Elevation
- 423 m above sea level
- Population
- 2 602
- Region
- Iowa
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1675 km away
What time is it in Rock Rapids, Iowa, United States
Right now in Rock Rapids, Iowa, United States the local time is the one shown here, in the America/Chicago zone (−5).
Rock Rapids, United States
Thursday, 29 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Rock Rapids
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Rock Rapids keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:57 AM Solar noon 1:09 PM Sunset 6:22 PM Daylight 10 h 25 min Night 13 h 35 min Civil twilight 7:28 AM – 6:51 PM
Weather in Rock Rapids right now
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Rock Rapids and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 51246
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
Same time zone — America/Chicago
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Nearby places
- Lyon County — 5.9 km
- Edna — 8.1 km
- Midland — 8.2 km
- Lakewood (historical) — 9.0 km
- Lakewood Corner — 9.0 km
- Steen — 12.0 km
Rock Rapids: clock, sun and surroundings
Rock Rapids is mapped by 1 postal code.
Rock Rapids keeps time under America/Chicago. That places it at UTC−5, with daylight saving time Yes.
The sun rises today at 7:57 AM in Rock Rapids and sets at 6:22 PM. Daylight covers 10 h 25 min.
Nearby, Lyon County and Edna go by the same clock as Rock Rapids.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone is used in Rock Rapids?
- The time zone used in Rock Rapids is America/Chicago, with an offset of −5.
- Do the clocks in Rock Rapids go back at any point?
- Yes.
- What time will the sun set in Rock Rapids today?
- Today it sets at 6:22 PM.