Dawson Switch in numbers
- Coordinates
- 30.7182, -91.5701
- Elevation
- 11 m above sea level
- Region
- Louisiana
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1605 km away
What time is it in Dawson Switch, Louisiana, United States
This page keeps the current time in Dawson Switch, Louisiana, United States, according to the America/Chicago zone (−6).
Dawson Switch, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Dawson Switch
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Dawson Switch, Louisiana.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:28 AM Solar noon 11:51 AM Sunset 5:15 PM Daylight 10 h 47 min Night 13 h 13 min Civil twilight 6:03 AM – 5:40 PM
Weather in Dawson Switch right now
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Dawson Switch and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 70759 Morganza — 2.6 km away
- 70762 Oscar — 17.1 km away
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
Same time zone — America/Chicago
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Nearby places
- Brownview — 1.8 km
- Labarre — 2.4 km
- Samuels — 2.9 km
- Morganza Landing — 3.1 km
- Pointe Coupee Parish — 3.1 km
- Morganza — 3.2 km
Local time details for Dawson Switch
Sunrise reaches Dawson Switch at 6:28 AM, and the sun sets at 5:15 PM. Light lasts 10 h 47 min.
The clock in Dawson Switch matches the clock in nearby Brownview and Labarre.
Deliveries to Dawson Switch are sorted by 2 postal codes.
Time in Dawson Switch runs on America/Chicago, which is UTC−6. Does daylight saving time apply here? No.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone governs time in Dawson Switch?
- Time in Dawson Switch follows the America/Chicago time zone, with an offset of −6.
- Does Dawson Switch use summer time?
- No.
- What time is sunset in Dawson Switch?
- It is 5:15 PM.