Columbus in numbers
- Coordinates
- 43.3381, -89.0154
- Elevation
- 259 m above sea level
- Population
- 4 996
- Region
- Wisconsin
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1117 km away
- Same name
- 24 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Columbus, Wisconsin, United States
On this page you will find the exact local time in Columbus, Wisconsin, United States, in the America/Chicago time zone (−5).
Columbus, United States
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Columbus
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Columbus.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:26 AM Solar noon 12:41 PM Sunset 5:56 PM Daylight 10 h 30 min Night 13 h 30 min Civil twilight 6:56 AM – 6:26 PM
Weather in Columbus right now
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Columbus and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 08022
- 16405
- 28722
- 31901
- 31902
- 31903
- 31904
- 31906
- 31907
- 31908
- 31909
- 31914
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 Wisconsin
Other places named Columbus
- Columbus Ohio, United States
- Columbus Georgia, United States
- Columbus Indiana, United States
- Columbus Mississippi, United States
- Columbus Nebraska, United States
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
- Danville — 5.3 km
- Elba — 5.4 km
- Fall River — 5.7 km
- Astico — 6.1 km
- Fountain Prairie — 9.6 km
- Calamus — 10.3 km
Columbus: clock, sun and surroundings
Today Columbus gets sunrise at 7:26 AM and sunset at 5:56 PM. That leaves 10 h 30 min of daylight.
Close to Columbus, the towns of Danville and Elba show the same time.
Columbus contains 12 postal codes.
Columbus runs on America/Chicago, which sits UTC−5 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: Yes.
Questions and answers
- How can I identify the time zone of Columbus?
- The time zone of Columbus is America/Chicago, with an offset of −5.
- Is the offset in Columbus changed for daylight saving?
- Yes.
- I need the sunrise and sunset times for Columbus.
- They are 7:26 AM and 5:56 PM.