Time in Aurora, Illinois, United States

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Current time in United States

Time zone: CDT (UTC/GMT -05:00) — America/Chicago

Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -5 H
Time zone: (UTC/GMT -05:00) America/Chicago

Time zone in Aurora

The local standard in Aurora is CDT — UTC-05:00, or 5 hours behind UTC. Systems that store time zones by name use America/Chicago for this part of the world.

Daylight saving applies here. Clocks next move back 1 hour on Sunday, 01 November 2026, putting Aurora on CST and changing its gap to every other zone listed below.

Across United States there are 10 distinct time zones among these 419 cities, so "local time" there depends entirely on which city you mean.

How far ahead or behind is Aurora?

Read this as: relative to each city below, Aurora is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.

New York UTC-04:00 Aurora is 1 hour behind
Los Angeles UTC-07:00 Aurora is 2 hours ahead
London UTC+01:00 Aurora is 6 hours behind
Paris UTC+02:00 Aurora is 7 hours behind
Dubai UTC+04:00 Aurora is 9 hours behind
Mumbai UTC+05:30 Aurora is 10 hours 30 minutes behind
Shanghai UTC+08:00 Aurora is 13 hours behind
Tokyo UTC+09:00 Aurora is 14 hours behind
Sydney UTC+10:00 Aurora is 15 hours behind
Sao Paulo UTC-03:00 Aurora is 2 hours behind

Working hours that match Aurora

Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Aurora time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.

New York 09:00–16:00 in Aurora 7 hours overlap
Los Angeles 11:00–17:00 in Aurora 6 hours overlap
Sao Paulo 09:00–15:00 in Aurora 6 hours overlap
London 09:00–11:00 in Aurora 2 hours overlap

No shared working window exists with Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai or Tokyo, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.

Sharing Aurora's time zone

These United States cities also use America/Chicago, so their clocks read identically to Aurora at every moment of the year.

Chicago San Antonio Fort Worth Oklahoma City New South Memphis Milwaukee Omaha Kansas City