Story County in numbers
- Coordinates
- 42.0362, -93.4650
- Region
- Iowa
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1431 km away
What time is it in Story County, Iowa, United States
This page shows local time in Story County, Iowa, United States as of this moment, in the America/Chicago zone (−5).
Story County, United States
Saturday, 17 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Story County
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Local time in Story County, Iowa.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:30 AM Solar noon 1:00 PM Sunset 6:31 PM Daylight 11 h 01 min Night 12 h 59 min Civil twilight 7:01 AM – 6:59 PM
Weather in Story County right now
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Story County and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 50011 Ames — 0.0 km away
- 50201 Nevada — 2.5 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
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
- Nevada — 1.8 km
- Iowa — 5.0 km
- Fernald — 6.9 km
- Shipley — 7.3 km
- Shady Grove Mobile Home Park — 9.0 km
- Bloomington — 10.3 km
About the time in Story County
Close by, Nevada and Iowa keep time with Story County.
Story County is served by a set of 2 postal codes.
People in Story County keep America/Chicago, a zone offset of UTC−5. Seasonal time change: Yes.
At Story County the sun clears the horizon at 7:30 AM and sinks again at 6:31 PM. The gap between them is 11 h 01 min.
Questions and answers
- Does Story County use the America/Chicago time zone?
- Yes, Story County uses America/Chicago, with an offset of −5.
- Do people in Story County set their clocks forward in spring?
- Daylight saving in Story County: Yes.
- Sunrise in Story County is at what time?
- At 7:30 AM.