Buras in numbers
- Coordinates
- 29.3519, -89.5242
- Elevation
- 0 m above sea level
- Population
- 945
- Region
- Louisiana
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1562 km away
- Same name
- 4 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Buras, Louisiana, United States
Below is the local time in Buras, Louisiana, United States, kept in the America/Chicago zone (−6).
Buras, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Buras
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Buras keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:18 AM Solar noon 11:43 AM Sunset 5:08 PM Daylight 10 h 51 min Night 13 h 09 min Civil twilight 5:53 AM – 5:33 PM
Weather in Buras right now
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Buras and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 70041
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 Louisiana
- New Orleans 362 701
- Baton Rouge 227 470
- Shreveport 187 593
- Metairie Terrace 142 489
- Metairie 138 481
- Lafayette 121 374
Other places named Buras
- Buras West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
- Buras Augšdaugava Municipality, Latvia
- Buras Kentucky, United States
- Buras Ḩajjah, Yemen
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
- Ostrica — 1.9 km
- Buras-Triumph — 2.3 km
- Gulftown — 3.3 km
- Sunrise — 4.1 km
- Triumph — 4.8 km
- Fort Jackson — 6.4 km
Buras: clock, sun and surroundings
In Buras today the sun is out from 6:18 AM until 5:08 PM. That comes to 10 h 51 min of daylight.
Nearby, Ostrica and Buras-Triumph go by the same clock as Buras.
Buras takes in 1 postal code.
Local timekeeping in Buras uses America/Chicago, equal to UTC−6. Summer clock change: No.
Questions and answers
- What is the time zone for Buras?
- The time zone for Buras is America/Chicago, with an offset of −6.
- What time zone rules apply in Buras — does the clock change for daylight saving time?
- Daylight saving time in Buras: No.
- When do sunrise and sunset happen in Buras?
- Sunrise is at 6:18 AM and sunset at 5:08 PM.