| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +6h | Becomes +5h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +7h | Becomes +6h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +9h | Becomes +10h on 1 Nov |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +14h | Becomes +15h on 1 Nov |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +15h | Becomes +16h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | +1h | Becomes ±0h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −2h | Becomes −1h on 1 Nov |
Wichita, United States runs on UTC−5. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−6 in winter, UTC−5 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. The time difference between Wichita and New York is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–17:00 in Wichita lines up with 10:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Wichita and London is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–12:00 in Wichita lines up with 15:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Wichita and Tokyo is 14 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with Tokyo, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Chicago, Dallas, Houston. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Wichita.
Wichita (United States) is home to roughly 395K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:24, sunset at 19:14. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−6 in winter, UTC−5 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 38° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
United States
Capital
Washington DC
Continent
North America
Time Zone
CDT · America/Chicago
Coordinates
37.69°N, 97.34°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
Wichita has built a large share of the world's general aviation aircraft since the 1920s — Cessna and Beechcraft were founded here, and Stearman and Learjet built their planes here, and by some counts the city has produced over a third of all general aviation planes ever made.
The clock: Wichita keeps Central Time. Pizza Hut and White Castle both started here too, which is a different kind of production line.
Wichita lies at 97.3°W. Its time zone, UTC−6, is built around the 90°W meridian. The 7.3° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 29 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:29 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 89 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:29.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 46m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 33m. The swing between them is 5h 13m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Wichita the sun comes up earliest on 14 June at 06:07, while the latest sunset waits until 30 June at 20:55. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Wichita that civil twilight runs about 26 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 31 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Wichita, United States is America/Chicago with a current UTC offset of UTC−5.
Wichita has an estimated population of 395K and is located at coordinates 37.69°N, 97.34°W.
Wichita gets 14h 46m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 33m on its shortest, averaging 12h 12m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Wichita falls at about 12:29 on UTC−6 standard time, because the city sits 7.3° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Air Capital of the World: Wichita has built a large share of the world's general aviation aircraft since the 1920s — Cessna and Beechcraft were founded here, and Stearman and Learjet built their planes here, and by some counts the city has…