Americus in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.5070, -96.2619
- Elevation
- 353 m above sea level
- Population
- 884
- Region
- Kansas
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1666 km away
- Same name
- 4 more places in the world share this name
Look up the current time in Americus, Kansas, United States, which follows the America/Chicago zone (−6).
Americus, United States
Friday, 13 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Americus
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Americus keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
Sunrise 7:06 AM Solar noon 12:11 PM Sunset 5:15 PM Daylight 10 h 09 min Night 13 h 51 min Civil twilight 6:38 AM – 5:44 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.
Americus follows America/Chicago, giving it a UTC−6 offset. Does the zone observe daylight saving? No.
Sunrise happens at 7:06 AM in Americus today and sunset at 5:15 PM. That marks 10 h 09 min of daylight.
Americus and its neighbours Lincoln Mobile Home Village and Lyon County keep one clock.
3 postal codes correspond to Americus.