Dessalines in numbers
- Coordinates
- 19.2618, -72.5161
- Population
- 181 903
- Region
- Artibonite
- Country
- Haiti, North America
- Capital
- Port-au-Prince — 82 km away
- Same name
- 1 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Dessalines, Artibonite, Haiti
The exact time in Dessalines, Artibonite, Haiti is given here, for the America/Port-au-Prince time zone (−4).
Dessalines, Haiti
Thursday, 29 October 2026
UTC−4 · America/Port-au-Prince
Local time in Dessalines
UTC−4 · daylight saving time is active
Dessalines keeps America/Port-au-Prince clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:50 AM Solar noon 12:35 PM Sunset 6:19 PM Daylight 11 h 29 min Night 12 h 31 min Civil twilight 6:28 AM – 6:42 PM
Weather in Dessalines right now
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Dessalines and its neighbours
Postal codes
- HT4130 L'Estère — 10.8 km away
- HT4410 Dessalines (Marchand-Dessalines) — 11.1 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
- Saint-Michel De L'Atalaye 95 216
- Gonaives 84 961
- Verrettes 48 724
- Desarmes 15 594
- Gros Morne 7 294
Other places named Dessalines
- Dessalines Sud, Haiti
Same time zone — America/Port-au-Prince
- Port-Au-Prince Haiti
Nearby places
- Desjardins — 22.4 km
- Anger — 22.7 km
- Gaudin — 22.9 km
- Bimani — 23.3 km
- Bastien — 23.7 km
- Vilellot — 23.8 km
About the time in Dessalines
The sun rises at 6:50 AM, sets at 6:19 PM, and stays over Dessalines for 11 h 29 min. That is today's daylight.
The time in Dessalines is also the time in nearby Desjardins and Anger.
Dessalines is served by a set of 2 postal codes.
In Dessalines the time zone is America/Port-au-Prince and the offset is UTC−4. Daylight saving time used: Yes.
Questions and answers
- What is the local time zone in Dessalines?
- The local time zone in Dessalines is America/Port-au-Prince, with an offset of −4.
- Are seasonal time changes observed in Dessalines?
- Yes.
- What time will the sun rise in Dessalines today?
- Today it rises at 6:50 AM.