What time is it in West Lafayette, Indiana?
8:56:00 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4:00.
- Time zone
- Eastern Daylight Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−4:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Population
- 46,338
Daylight saving in West Lafayette
West Lafayette is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 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 Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over West Lafayette it is highest at 1:39 pm today — 99 minutes after clock noon.
At 86.9°W, West Lafayette sits well toward the western edge of its zone, which is why the sun stays up later here than the clock suggests. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in West Lafayette today
- Sunrise
- 7:38 am
- Sunset
- 7:40 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 4 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in West Lafayette, and the day is getting shorter by 3 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.