Time in Joliet, 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 Joliet

The local standard in Joliet 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 Joliet on CST and changing its gap to every other zone listed below.

Bear in mind United States spans 10 zones across the 419 cities we cover — checking a second city in the same country is often necessary.

Time difference between Joliet and other cities

How Joliet lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.

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

Best time to call Joliet

Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in Joliet local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.

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

Same local time as Joliet

No difference at all from Joliet: the cities below share the America/Chicago zone.

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