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Sunrise and Sunset Times in Louisiana

Find today's sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and twilight times for cities in Louisiana. Select a city below or use the search to find your location.

Largest Cities

New Orleans Baton Rouge Shreveport Lafayette Lake Charles
Northernmost city
Bossier City
32.5°N · 14h 17m on the June solstice
Southernmost city
Houma
29.6°N · 14h 3m on the June solstice
Most seasonal
Bossier City
4h 17m solstice-to-solstice swing
Median city vs. nation
3h 55m swing
national median 5h 16m
Sun furthest behind the clock
Shreveport
solar noon ≈ 15 min after 12:00

All Cities

Longest and shortest day are the June and December solstice day lengths at each city's own coordinates. Sun vs. clock is how far mean solar noon falls from 12:00 standard time — negative means the Sun peaks before the clock says noon.

City Longest day Shortest day Swing Sun vs. clock Urban pop.
New Orleans Orleans area 14h 5m 10h 13m 3h 53m ±0 min 928,503
Baton Rouge East Baton Rouge area 14h 7m 10h 11m 3h 56m +5 min 654,357
Shreveport Caddo area 14h 17m 10h 1m 4h 16m +15 min 276,074
Lafayette Lafayette area 14h 6m 10h 12m 3h 54m +8 min 242,063
Lake Charles Calcasieu area 14h 6m 10h 12m 3h 54m +13 min 153,662
Metairie Jefferson area 14h 5m 10h 13m 3h 52m +1 min 139,729
Houma Terrebonne area 14h 3m 10h 15m 3h 48m +3 min 139,352
Mandeville St. Tammany area 14h 7m 10h 11m 3h 55m ±0 min 122,591
Monroe Ouachita area 14h 17m 10h 1m 4h 17m +8 min 121,132
Slidell St. Tammany area 14h 6m 10h 12m 3h 55m −1 min 90,755
Alexandria Rapides area 14h 11m 10h 7m 4h 4m +10 min 76,381
Hammond Tangipahoa area 14h 7m 10h 11m 3h 57m +2 min 70,502
Kenner Jefferson area 14h 5m 10h 13m 3h 52m +1 min 64,904
Bossier City Bossier area 14h 17m 10h 1m 4h 17m +15 min 62,901
Prairieville Ascension area 14h 6m 10h 11m 3h 55m +4 min 35,238
Marrero Jefferson area 14h 4m 10h 13m 3h 51m ±0 min 32,540
Central East Baton Rouge area 14h 8m 10h 10m 3h 57m +4 min 29,783
Laplace St. John the Baptist area 14h 5m 10h 13m 3h 53m +2 min 28,343
New Iberia Iberia area 14h 5m 10h 13m 3h 52m +7 min 27,571

Sunrise and Sunset in Louisiana

The 19 Louisiana cities listed here span 2.9° of latitude, from Houma in the south (29.6°N) to Bossier City in the north (32.5°N). On the June solstice that puts about 14h 17m of daylight over Bossier City against 14h 3m over Houma — a 15m difference inside one state. In December the gap reverses, and the southern cities are the ones holding more light.

The median Louisiana city swings 3h 55m between the solstices against a national median of 5h 16m, so Louisiana has a 1h 22m gentler year of daylight than a typical American city.

Seasons bite hardest in Bossier City, where daylight swings 4h 17m between the solstices, and least in Houma at 3h 48m. The table above lists both figures for every city, so you can see where any town falls between those two extremes.

Louisiana sits entirely in Central Time. Longitude decides how a city's clock lines up with its Sun: Shreveport sits furthest west inside its zone, which puts mean solar noon about 15 minutes after clock noon and gives it the state's latest-running evenings for its longitude.

Each city page carries that city's full profile: today's sunrise and sunset on a live tracker, a twelve-month table of times, the dates of the year's earliest and latest sunsets, the Sun's midday height by season, a golden-hour calendar, clear-sky solar-energy figures, and where the city ranks against the rest of the country.