Time difference between Chicago and New York

See the current local time in Chicago and New York side by side. The difference updates live and automatically accounts for daylight saving time.

When it is 12:00 noon in Chicago, the clock in New York shows 13:00. For meetings within business hours (9:00–17:00), the shared window is 09:00–16:00 Chicago time. As the crow flies, the two cities are about 1,150 km (710 mi) apart — roughly 2 h nonstop by plane.