Drakesboro in numbers
- Coordinates
- 37.2175, -87.0489
- Elevation
- 135 m above sea level
- Population
- 509
- Region
- Kentucky
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 896 km away
What time is it in Drakesboro, Kentucky, United States
The current hour and minute in Drakesboro, Kentucky, United States are shown here, in the America/Chicago zone (−6).
Drakesboro, United States
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Drakesboro
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Drakesboro, Kentucky.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:23 AM Solar noon 11:33 AM Sunset 4:44 PM Daylight 10 h 20 min Night 13 h 40 min Civil twilight 5:56 AM – 5:11 PM
Weather in Drakesboro right now
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Drakesboro and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 42337
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 Kentucky
- Louisville 624 444
- Lexington 320 347
- Lexington-Fayette 314 488
- Meads 288 649
- Bowling Green 63 616
- Owensboro 59 042
Same time zone — America/Chicago
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Nearby places
- Nonnell — 2.4 km
- Browder — 2.5 km
- Ebenezer — 3.2 km
- Bevier — 4.2 km
- Beech Creek — 4.7 km
- Beechmont — 5.0 km
About the time in Drakesboro
Both Nonnell and Browder are near Drakesboro and keep its time.
The area of Drakesboro is divided into 1 postal code.
The time zone used in Drakesboro is America/Chicago, set at UTC−6. Whether the clocks shift for daylight saving: No.
Today Drakesboro gets sunrise at 6:23 AM and sunset at 4:44 PM. That leaves 10 h 20 min of daylight.
Questions and answers
- Should America/Chicago be used as the time zone for Drakesboro?
- Yes, Drakesboro uses America/Chicago, whose offset is −6.
- Does Drakesboro run on daylight saving time for part of the year?
- Daylight saving in Drakesboro: No.
- How early does the sun rise in Drakesboro?
- The first sunlight comes at 6:23 AM.