Local time · Baton Rouge
What time is it in Baton Rouge, Louisiana?
3:51:22AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 220,907
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Baton Rouge sits at 30.44°N, 91.13°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Baton Rouge.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Baton Rouge it is highest at 11:48 am today — 12 minutes before clock noon.
At 91.1°W, Baton Rouge sits almost exactly on Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in Baton Rouge today
- Sunrise
- 6:28 am
- Sunset
- 5:08 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 40 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 7 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 40 minutes in Baton Rouge, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 56 minutes, from 14 hours 7 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 11 minutes in December.
At 30.4°N that puts Baton Rouge between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.