Time in Chicago, United States

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

Local time here is CDT, which sits 5 hours behind UTC, written UTC-05:00. The canonical zone name is America/Chicago, and that is what to pick from a time zone dropdown.

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

United States is not on a single clock: the 419 cities listed here fall across 10 time zones, so times elsewhere in the country will not match Chicago.

Around 2,696,555 people live in Chicago, making it the 3rd largest of the 212 United States cities covered here.

Current gap between Chicago and cities people most often need to coordinate with. These figures already account for daylight saving where it applies.

Usable call slots from Chicago, taking business hours as 09:00 to 17:00 in both places.

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

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

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