Bates Junction in numbers
- Coordinates
- 46.0863, -88.6021
- Elevation
- 472 m above sea level
- Region
- Michigan
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1238 km away
What time is it in Bates Junction, Michigan, United States
The local time in Bates Junction, Michigan, United States — in the America/Menominee time zone (−6) — is shown on this page.
Bates Junction, United States
Monday, 2 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Menominee
Local time in Bates Junction
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Bates Junction keeps America/Menominee clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:38 AM Solar noon 11:39 AM Sunset 4:41 PM Daylight 10 h 03 min Night 13 h 57 min Civil twilight 6:06 AM – 5:12 PM
Weather in Bates Junction right now
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Bates Junction and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 49964 Stambaugh — 2.2 km away
- 49915 Caspian — 3.4 km away
- 49935 Iron River — 3.5 km away
- 49927 Gaastra — 3.8 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 Michigan
- Detroit 645 705
- Grand Rapids 195 097
- Warren 134 056
- Sterling Heights 132 052
- Ann Arbor 117 070
- Lansing 112 644
Nearby places
- Stambaugh, Iron River — 2.0 km
- Rogers Location — 2.6 km
- Gaastra — 3.1 km
- Bates Location — 3.2 km
- Iron River — 3.2 km
- Caspian — 3.4 km
Bates Junction: clock, sun and surroundings
Time runs the same in Bates Junction and in nearby Stambaugh, Iron River and Rogers Location.
4 postal codes cover the territory of Bates Junction.
The time zone assigned to Bates Junction is America/Menominee, held at UTC−6. Daylight saving time applies: No.
Sunrise today in Bates Junction lands at 6:38 AM; sunset lands at 4:41 PM. That is 10 h 03 min of light.
Questions and answers
- What is Bates Junction's time zone?
- Bates Junction's time zone is America/Menominee, with an offset of −6.
- Does the time in Bates Junction shift by an hour at any point in the year?
- No.
- How do I know when the sun rises in Bates Junction?
- Sunrise there is at 6:38 AM.