Chicago uses Central Time (America/Chicago), CST or CDT depending on the season.
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The US Midwest’s main reference city sits one hour behind New York and two hours ahead of Los Angeles in normal conditions. CME and agricultural markets often quote Chicago time. Houston shares the same IANA family.
Chicago uses America/Chicago. The current offset is UTC-05:00. Clocks on this page update from that IANA zone rather than from the server’s local time.
Chicago, United States is in Central Standard Time (America/Chicago). Chicago uses Central Time (America/Chicago), CST or CDT depending on the season.
Daylight saving time is in effect Most US Central locations observe daylight saving and use CDT in summer. Saskatchewan and some Mexican regions follow different rules via other IANA zones.
At this moment the offset difference is -01:00 hours relative to UTC labels, meaning Chicago compared with New York can be converted in the time zone converter using America/Chicago and America/New_York. Daylight saving on either side is applied automatically.