Local time · Central
What time is it in Central, Louisiana?
3:50:01AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 30,161
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Central
Central is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Central sits at 30.56°N, 91.04°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Central.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Central it is highest at 11:48 am today — 12 minutes before clock noon.
At 91.0°W, Central 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 Central today
- Sunrise
- 6:28 am
- Sunset
- 5:08 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 39 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 7 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 39 minutes in Central, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 57 minutes, from 14 hours 7 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 10 minutes in December.
At 30.6°N that puts Central between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.