Local time · Gulfport
What time is it in Gulfport, Mississippi?
3:51:05AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 74,621
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Gulfport
Gulfport is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Gulfport sits at 30.42°N, 89.07°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Gulfport.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Gulfport it is highest at 11:40 am today — 20 minutes before clock noon.
At 89.1°W, Gulfport 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 Gulfport today
- Sunrise
- 6:20 am
- Sunset
- 5:00 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 40 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 7 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 40 minutes in Gulfport, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 3 hours 56 minutes, from 14 hours 7 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 11 minutes in December.
At 30.4°N that puts Gulfport between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.