Chicago — America/Chicago

The current local time in the America/Chicago IANA time zone is shown below. The zone is currently at UTC -05:00 · CDT and observes daylight saving time.

America/Chicago

04:24:41

Friday, 17 July 2026 CDT

Zone information

IANA designation

America/Chicago

Region: America

Reference pages: CST , CDT

Offset & DST

Current UTC offset: -05:00

Daylight saving: Observed

January offset -06:00 · July offset -05:00

Countries using America/Chicago

🇺🇸 United States Country time page

Cities in this zone

Chicago 2,693,976 residents Houston 2,320,268 residents San Antonio 1,547,253 residents Dallas 1,343,573 residents

Other America zones

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Adak America/Adak Anchorage America/Anchorage Anguilla America/Anguilla Antigua America/Antigua Araguaina America/Araguaina Argentina/La Rioja America/Argentina/La_Rioja Argentina/Rio Gallegos America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos Argentina/Salta America/Argentina/Salta Argentina/San Juan America/Argentina/San_Juan Argentina/San Luis America/Argentina/San_Luis Argentina/Tucuman America/Argentina/Tucuman Argentina/Ushuaia America/Argentina/Ushuaia Aruba America/Aruba Asuncion America/Asuncion Bahia America/Bahia Bahia Banderas America/Bahia_Banderas Barbados America/Barbados Belem America/Belem

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