Port Nickel in numbers
- Coordinates
- 29.8577, -89.9626
- Elevation
- 2 m above sea level
- Region
- Louisiana
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1552 km away
What time is it in Port Nickel, Louisiana, United States
What follows is the current local time in Port Nickel, Louisiana, United States, in the America/Chicago zone (−5).
Port Nickel, United States
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Port Nickel
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Local time in Port Nickel, Louisiana.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:03 AM Solar noon 12:46 PM Sunset 6:30 PM Daylight 11 h 26 min Night 12 h 34 min Civil twilight 6:39 AM – 6:54 PM
Weather in Port Nickel right now
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Port Nickel and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 70093 Belle Chasse — 2.7 km away
- 70037 Belle Chasse — 4.8 km away
- 70131 New Orleans — 7.3 km away
- 70056 Gretna — 7.5 km away
- 70092 Violet — 8.3 km away
- 70075 Meraux — 9.3 km away
- 70043 Chalmette — 9.9 km away
- 70058 Harvey — 10.2 km away
- 70053 Gretna — 10.5 km away
- 70054 Gretna — 10.8 km away
- 70114 New Orleans — 11.2 km away
- 70032 Arabi — 12.0 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
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Nearby places
- Saint Clair — 1.5 km
- English Turn — 2.0 km
- Scarsdale — 2.0 km
- Braithwaite — 2.1 km
- Southern Oaks Mobile Home Park — 2.2 km
- Belle Chasse — 2.7 km
Time and daylight in Port Nickel
The hour in Port Nickel is the hour in Saint Clair and Scarsdale as well.
Port Nickel works with 12 postal codes.
Standard time in Port Nickel comes from America/Chicago and equals UTC−5. Clocks change for daylight saving: Yes.
Sunrise today is 7:03 AM in Port Nickel, with sunset at 6:30 PM. That works out to 11 h 26 min of light.
Questions and answers
- Does Port Nickel use the America/Chicago time zone?
- Yes, Port Nickel uses America/Chicago, with an offset of −5.
- Does Port Nickel observe a seasonal time shift?
- Daylight saving in Port Nickel: Yes.
- At what hour does the sun rise in Port Nickel?
- At 7:03 AM.