Local time · Lake Charles
What time is it in Lake Charles, Louisiana?
3:51:26AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 81,157
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Lake Charles
Lake Charles is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Lake Charles sits at 30.20°N, 93.21°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Lake Charles.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Lake Charles it is highest at 11:57 am today — 3 minutes before clock noon.
At 93.2°W, Lake Charles sits 13 minutes of solar time west of Central Standard Time’s 90° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 13 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Lake Charles today
- Sunrise
- 6:36 am
- Sunset
- 5:17 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 41 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 6 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 41 minutes in Lake Charles, 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 Lake Charles between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.