Local time · Lafayette
What time is it in Lafayette, Louisiana?
3:51:01AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 122,280
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Lafayette
Lafayette is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Lafayette sits at 30.21°N, 92.03°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Lafayette.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Lafayette it is highest at 11:52 am today — 8 minutes before clock noon.
At 92.0°W, Lafayette sits 8 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 8 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Lafayette today
- Sunrise
- 6:32 am
- Sunset
- 5:12 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 40 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 6 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 40 minutes in Lafayette, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 54 minutes, from 14 hours 6 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 12 minutes in December.
At 30.2°N that puts Lafayette between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.