Basse Terre in numbers
- Coordinates
- 4.8365, -52.4829
- Region
- French Guiana 00
- Country
- French Guiana, South America
- Capital
- Cayenne — 20 km away
- Same name
- 4 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Basse Terre, French Guiana 00, French Guiana
The page gives the present local time in Basse Terre, French Guiana 00, French Guiana, whose time zone is America/Cayenne (−3).
Basse Terre, French Guiana
Sunday, 18 October 2026
UTC−3 · America/Cayenne
Local time in Basse Terre
UTC−3 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Basse Terre.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:16 AM Solar noon 12:16 PM Sunset 6:16 PM Daylight 12 h 00 min Night 12 h 00 min Civil twilight 5:55 AM – 6:37 PM
Weather in Basse Terre right now
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Basse Terre and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 97356 Montsinéry-Tonnegrande — 7.3 km away
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in French Guiana 00
- Résidence Cogneau-Larivot 2 730
- Résidence Arc-en-Ciel 2 000
Other places named Basse Terre
- Basse Terre Nord-Ouest, Haiti
- Basse Terre Artibonite, Haiti
- Basse Terre Sud, Haiti
- Basse Terre Princes Town, Trinidad And Tobago
Nearby places
- Port Inini — 2.2 km
- Crique Anguille — 3.0 km
- Patawa — 3.2 km
- Cigogne — 4.0 km
- Maripa — 4.4 km
- Tonnegrande — 4.4 km
Time and daylight in Basse Terre
Basse Terre and nearby Port Inini and Crique Anguille are never an hour apart.
Basse Terre is split into 1 postal code areas.
The zone applied in Basse Terre is America/Cayenne with offset UTC−3. Whether clocks shift for daylight saving: No.
For Basse Terre today, sunrise is 6:16 AM and sunset is 6:16 PM. Daylight lasts 12 h 00 min.
Questions and answers
- What should I enter as the time zone for Basse Terre?
- Enter America/Cayenne as the time zone for Basse Terre; its offset is −3.
- Will the time in Basse Terre move forward or back for daylight saving?
- Daylight saving time in Basse Terre: No.
- What are the sunrise and sunset times in Basse Terre?
- Sunrise 6:16 AM, sunset 6:16 PM.