Local time · Meridian
What time is it in Meridian, Mississippi?
3:50:40AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 33,549
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Meridian
Meridian is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Meridian sits at 32.38°N, 88.69°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Meridian.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Meridian it is highest at 11:39 am today — 21 minutes before clock noon.
At 88.7°W, Meridian 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 Meridian today
- Sunrise
- 6:22 am
- Sunset
- 4:55 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 33 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 17 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 33 minutes in Meridian, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 15 minutes, from 14 hours 17 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 1 minute in December.
At 32.4°N that puts Meridian between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.