Van Buren in numbers
- Coordinates
- 35.4368, -94.3483
- Population
- 23 081
- Region
- Arkansas
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1579 km away
- Same name
- 12 more places in the world share this name
This page answers what time it is in Van Buren, Arkansas, United States right now, in the America/Chicago zone (−6).
Van Buren, United States
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Van Buren
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Van Buren keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
Sunrise 6:42 AM Solar noon 12:02 PM Sunset 5:22 PM Daylight 10 h 40 min Night 13 h 20 min Civil twilight 6:16 AM – 5:49 PM
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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.
Locations in Van Buren are covered by 6 postal codes.
Local clocks in Van Buren follow the America/Chicago zone, UTC−6. Do they shift for daylight saving? No.
Morning light reaches Van Buren at 6:42 AM, and the sun sets at 5:22 PM. Daylight lasts a total of 10 h 40 min.
The same local time applies in Van Buren, Oak Park and Smeltzer.