Baxter Springs in numbers
- Coordinates
- 37.0237, -94.7355
- Elevation
- 257 m above sea level
- Population
- 4 028
- Region
- Kansas
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1563 km away
What time is it in Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States
The current local time in Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States — time zone America/Chicago (−5) — is shown right here.
Baxter Springs, United States
Thursday, 15 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Baxter Springs
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Local time in Baxter Springs, Kansas.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:28 AM Solar noon 1:06 PM Sunset 6:44 PM Daylight 11 h 16 min Night 12 h 44 min Civil twilight 7:01 AM – 7:10 PM
Weather in Baxter Springs right now
Loading the current weather…
Weather data by Open-Meteo, updated every 30 minutes.
Baxter Springs and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 66713
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 Kansas
- Wichita 396 119
- Overland Park 186 515
- Kansas City 152 933
- Olathe 134 305
- Topeka 125 963
- Lawrence 93 917
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
- Baxter Junction — 1.1 km
- Commonwealth — 2.5 km
- Lowell — 4.1 km
- Ontario — 4.7 km
- Hockerville (historical) — 5.2 km
- Five Mile — 5.9 km
About the time in Baxter Springs
Baxter Junction and Commonwealth are close to Baxter Springs and observe the same time.
1 postal code is current for Baxter Springs.
The zone applied in Baxter Springs is America/Chicago with offset UTC−5. Whether clocks shift for daylight saving: Yes.
Today in Baxter Springs, daylight opens at 7:28 AM and closes at 6:44 PM. That span measures 11 h 16 min.
Questions and answers
- How is the time zone for Baxter Springs identified?
- The time zone for Baxter Springs is identified as America/Chicago, with an offset of −5.
- Is summer time in effect in Baxter Springs at some point in the year?
- Daylight saving observed in Baxter Springs: Yes.
- What time is sunset in Baxter Springs?
- It is 6:44 PM.