Mammoth Cave in numbers
- Coordinates
- 37.1862, -86.1000
- Elevation
- 225 m above sea level
- Region
- Kentucky
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 816 km away
What time is it in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, United States
This page shows the time of day in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, United States as it stands now, in the America/Chicago zone (−6).
Mammoth Cave, United States
Monday, 2 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Mammoth Cave
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:11 AM Solar noon 11:29 AM Sunset 4:47 PM Daylight 10 h 37 min Night 13 h 23 min Civil twilight 5:44 AM – 5:14 PM
Weather in Mammoth Cave right now
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Mammoth Cave and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 42259
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
- Sloans Crossing — 3.9 km
- Elko — 4.1 km
- Union City — 6.0 km
- Chaumont — 7.0 km
- Stockholm — 7.4 km
- Cedar Spring — 8.5 km
About the time in Mammoth Cave
Time in Mammoth Cave runs on America/Chicago, which is UTC−6. Does daylight saving time apply here? No.
Sunrise arrives in Mammoth Cave at 6:11 AM today and the sun goes down at 4:47 PM. That gives the day 10 h 37 min of light.
Sloans Crossing and Elko sit close to Mammoth Cave and run on the same clock.
There is 1 postal code assigned to Mammoth Cave.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is the clock in Mammoth Cave based on?
- The clock in Mammoth Cave is based on America/Chicago, with an offset of −6.
- Is daylight saving time in force in Mammoth Cave?
- Daylight saving in Mammoth Cave: No.
- When does daylight end in Mammoth Cave?
- Daylight ends at 4:47 PM.