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 current local time in Basse Terre, French Guiana 00, French Guiana — time zone America/Cayenne (−3) — is shown right here.
Basse Terre, French Guiana
Friday, 4 September 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 06:25 Solar noon 12:30 Sunset 18:36 Daylight 12 h 12 min Night 11 h 48 min Civil twilight 06:04 – 18:57
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 appears under 1 postal code.
The zone applied in Basse Terre is America/Cayenne with offset UTC−3. Whether clocks shift for daylight saving: No.
Basse Terre greets the sun at 06:25 and loses it at 18:36 today. Daylight runs to 12 h 12 min.
Check Basse Terre and you have also checked Port Inini and Crique Anguille.
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 06:25, sunset 18:36.