Local time · New Orleans
What time is it in New Orleans, Louisiana?
3:51:30AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 362,701
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in New Orleans
New Orleans is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
New Orleans sits at 30.05°N, 89.93°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in New Orleans.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over New Orleans it is highest at 11:44 am today — 16 minutes before clock noon.
At 89.9°W, New Orleans 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 New Orleans today
- Sunrise
- 6:23 am
- Sunset
- 5:04 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 41 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 5 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 41 minutes in New Orleans, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 52 minutes, from 14 hours 5 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 12 minutes in December.
At 30.1°N that puts New Orleans between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.