Local time · West Lafayette
What time is it in West Lafayette, Indiana?
4:51:05AM
- Time zone
- EST
- America/Indiana/Indianapolis
- UTC offset
- −5:00
- Standard is −5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 46,338
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in West Lafayette
West Lafayette is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
West Lafayette sits at 40.44°N, 86.92°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in West Lafayette.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Eastern Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over West Lafayette it is highest at 12:31 pm today — 31 minutes after clock noon.
At 86.9°W, West Lafayette sits 48 minutes of solar time west of Eastern Standard Time’s 75° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 48 minutes after noon.
Daylight in West Lafayette today
- Sunrise
- 7:31 am
- Sunset
- 5:32 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours
- Longest day
- 15 hours 4 minutes
Today runs 10 hours in West Lafayette, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 47 minutes, from 15 hours 4 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 17 minutes in December.
At 40.4°N that puts West Lafayette between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.