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 (−5).
Dawson Switch, United States
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Dawson Switch
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Local time in Dawson Switch, Louisiana.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:10 AM Solar noon 12:53 PM Sunset 6:35 PM Daylight 11 h 25 min Night 12 h 35 min Civil twilight 6:46 AM – 7:00 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 7:10 AM, and the sun sets at 6:35 PM. Light lasts 11 h 25 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−5. Does daylight saving time apply here? Yes.
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 −5.
- Does Dawson Switch use summer time?
- Yes.
- What time is sunset in Dawson Switch?
- It is 6:35 PM.