La Junta in numbers
- Coordinates
- 37.9850, -103.5440
- Elevation
- 1243 m above sea level
- Population
- 6 951
- Region
- Colorado
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 2303 km away
- Same name
- 132 more places in the world share this name
What follows is the current local time in La Junta, Colorado, United States, in the America/Denver zone (−7).
La Junta, United States
Friday, 13 November 2026
UTC−7 · America/Denver
Local time in La Junta
UTC−7 · no daylight saving time
La Junta keeps America/Denver clock_time.
Sunrise 6:34 AM Solar noon 11:40 AM Sunset 4:46 PM Daylight 10 h 12 min Night 13 h 48 min Civil twilight 6:06 AM – 5:13 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.
Within La Junta, postal codes number 1.
Clocks in La Junta take America/Denver as their zone, reading UTC−7. Daylight saving time applies: No.
Today the sun rises over La Junta at 6:34 AM and sets at 4:46 PM. That is 10 h 12 min of daylight in all.
The local time of La Junta is shared by neighbouring North La Junta and La Junta Gardens.