Lafayette in numbers
- Coordinates
- 32.8998, -85.4011
- Elevation
- 257 m above sea level
- Population
- 3 003
- Region
- Alabama
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1005 km away
- Same name
- 27 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Lafayette, Alabama, United States
Read off the current local time in Lafayette, Alabama, United States, which belongs to the America/Chicago zone (−6).
Lafayette, United States
Friday, 13 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Lafayette
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Lafayette keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:11 AM Solar noon 11:27 AM Sunset 4:43 PM Daylight 10 h 32 min Night 13 h 28 min Civil twilight 5:45 AM – 5:09 PM
Weather in Lafayette right now
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Lafayette and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 07848
- 36862
- 37083
- 45854
- 47901
- 47902
- 47903
- 47904
- 47905
- 47909
- 56054
- 70501
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 Alabama
- Huntsville 215 006
- Birmingham 196 357
- Montgomery 195 287
- Mobile 183 289
- Tuscaloosa 111 338
- Hoover 84 848
Other places named Lafayette
- Lafayette Louisiana, United States
- Lafayette Indiana, United States
- Lafayette Colorado, United States
- Lafayette California, United States
- Lafayette Georgia, United States
Same time zone — America/Chicago
- Chicago United States
- Houston United States
- San Antonio United States
- Dallas United States
- Fort Worth United States
- Austin United States
Nearby places
- Chambers County — 1.8 km
- Buffalo — 5.2 km
- Rollins — 5.6 km
- Boyds — 9.2 km
- Moorefield — 9.2 km
- Wards Mill — 9.6 km
Time and daylight in Lafayette
Lafayette has 12 postal codes in total.
Clocks in Lafayette take America/Chicago as their zone, reading UTC−6. Daylight saving time applies: No.
Today's daylight in Lafayette begins at 6:11 AM and finishes at 4:43 PM. The total is 10 h 32 min.
Chambers County and Buffalo sit close to Lafayette and run on the same clock.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone is observed in Lafayette?
- Lafayette observes the America/Chicago time zone, with an offset of −6.
- Does the time in Lafayette vary with the season?
- Daylight saving time in Lafayette: No.
- Tell me the sunset hour in Lafayette.
- The sunset hour is 4:43 PM.