Local time · La Crosse
What time is it in La Crosse, Wisconsin?
3:50:27AM
- Time zone
- CST
- America/Chicago
- UTC offset
- −6:00
- Standard is −6:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 51,049
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in La Crosse
La Crosse is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
La Crosse sits at 43.82°N, 91.22°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in La Crosse.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Central Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over La Crosse it is highest at 11:49 am today — 11 minutes before clock noon.
At 91.2°W, La Crosse 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 La Crosse today
- Sunrise
- 6:57 am
- Sunset
- 4:41 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 44 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 28 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 44 minutes in La Crosse, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 34 minutes, from 15 hours 28 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 54 minutes in December.
At 43.8°N that puts La Crosse between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.