What time is it in Houma, Louisiana?

Houma is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.

Houma sits at 29.58°N, 90.71°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Houma.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Houma it is highest at 12:54 pm today — 54 minutes after clock noon.

At 90.7°W, Houma 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.

Today runs 12 hours 3 minutes in Houma, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 48 minutes, from 14 hours 3 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 15 minutes in December.

At 29.6°N that puts Houma between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.