Shields in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.6156, -100.4450
- Elevation
- 848 m above sea level
- Region
- Kansas
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 2024 km away
- Same name
- 12 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Shields, Kansas, United States
Watch the current local time in Shields, Kansas, United States, running on the America/Chicago time zone (−5).
Shields, United States
Friday, 23 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Shields
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Shields keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 8:00 AM Solar noon 1:27 PM Sunset 6:54 PM Daylight 10 h 54 min Night 13 h 06 min Civil twilight 7:33 AM – 7:21 PM
Weather in Shields right now
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Shields and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 58569
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 Kansas
- Wichita 396 119
- Overland Park 186 515
- Kansas City 152 933
- Olathe 134 305
- Topeka 125 963
- Lawrence 93 917
Other places named Shields
- Shields Michigan, United States
- Shields Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Shields Indiana, United States
- Shields Kentucky, United States
Same time zone — America/Chicago
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- Austin United States
Nearby places
Time and daylight in Shields
Shields keeps the America/Chicago zone, which is UTC−5. Whether summer time is observed: Yes.
Daylight in Shields today runs from 8:00 AM to 6:54 PM. The stretch measures 10 h 54 min.
Places close to Shields, among them Healy and Lane County, share its time.
Addressing within Shields draws on 1 postal code.
Questions and answers
- What time zone setting should I choose for Shields?
- Choose America/Chicago for Shields, with an offset of −5.
- Does Shields observe a seasonal time shift?
- Daylight saving in Shields: Yes.
- Do you know the time of sunrise in Shields?
- Yes, it is 8:00 AM.