Basse Terre in numbers
- Coordinates
- 19.2667, -72.5333
- Region
- Artibonite
- Country
- Haiti, North America
- Capital
- Port-au-Prince — 83 km away
- Same name
- 4 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Basse Terre, Artibonite, Haiti
The time in Basse Terre, Artibonite, Haiti at this very moment is shown below, in the America/Port-au-Prince zone (−5).
Basse Terre, Haiti
Monday, 2 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/Port-au-Prince
Local time in Basse Terre
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Basse Terre, Artibonite.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:52 AM Solar noon 11:35 AM Sunset 5:17 PM Daylight 11 h 25 min Night 12 h 35 min Civil twilight 5:30 AM – 5:40 PM
Weather in Basse Terre right now
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Basse Terre and its neighbours
Postal codes
- HT4130 L'Estère — 9.0 km away
- HT4410 Dessalines (Marchand-Dessalines) — 10.9 km away
- HT4440 Desdunes — 12.0 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 Artibonite
- Saint-Marc 266 642
- Dessalines 181 903
- Saint-Michel De L'Atalaye 95 216
- Gonaives 84 961
- Verrettes 48 724
- Desarmes 15 594
Other places named Basse Terre
- Basse Terre French Guiana 00, French Guiana
- Basse Terre Nord-Ouest, Haiti
- Basse Terre Sud, Haiti
- Basse Terre Princes Town, Trinidad And Tobago
Same time zone — America/Port-au-Prince
- Port-Au-Prince Haiti
Nearby places
- Dumany — 22.3 km
- Gilbert — 22.9 km
- Viellot — 22.9 km
- Anger — 23.3 km
- Desjardins — 23.4 km
- Gaudin — 23.4 km
Time and daylight in Basse Terre
The same local time applies in Basse Terre, Dumany and Viellot.
The postal code count for Basse Terre is 3.
Basse Terre sets its clocks by America/Port-au-Prince, which runs UTC−5. Daylight saving time here: No.
Sunrise at Basse Terre today happens at 5:52 AM, sunset at 5:17 PM. The two are 11 h 25 min apart.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone is assigned to Basse Terre?
- The time zone assigned to Basse Terre is America/Port-au-Prince, with an offset of −5.
- Is a daylight saving adjustment made in Basse Terre?
- No.
- Which time marks sunrise in Basse Terre?
- 5:52 AM marks sunrise.