Madison in numbers
- Coordinates
- 43.0731, -89.4012
- Population
- 280 305
- Region
- Wisconsin
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1136 km away
- Same name
- 30 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Madison, Wisconsin, United States
This page carries the current local time for Madison, Wisconsin, United States, in the America/Chicago time zone (−6).
Madison, United States
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Madison
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Madison keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:36 AM Solar noon 11:42 AM Sunset 4:49 PM Daylight 10 h 13 min Night 13 h 47 min Civil twilight 6:06 AM – 5:18 PM
Weather in Madison right now
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Madison and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 03849
- 04950
- 06443
- 07940
- 13402
- 15663
- 21648
- 22727
- 25130
- 27025
- 30650
- 32340
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 Madison
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- Madison Indiana, United States
Same time zone — America/Chicago
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- Dallas United States
- Fort Worth United States
- Austin United States
Nearby places
- Preglers Addition — 0.8 km
- Bowens Addition — 0.8 km
- Warrens Addition — 1.1 km
- Oakland Heights — 1.2 km
- Greenbush Addition — 1.3 km
- Dane County — 1.5 km
Madison: clock, sun and surroundings
The time in Madison is also the time in nearby Bowens Addition and Preglers Addition.
The mail network in Madison covers 12 codes.
Madison runs on America/Chicago, which sits UTC−6 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: No.
Today's schedule for Madison: sunrise 6:36 AM, sunset 4:49 PM. That gives 10 h 13 min of daylight.
Questions and answers
- What zone is used to calculate the time in Madison?
- The time in Madison is calculated using America/Chicago, with an offset of −6.
- Is daylight saving time in force in Madison?
- Daylight saving in Madison: No.
- Sunset in Madison is at what time?
- At 4:49 PM.