Athens in numbers
- Coordinates
- 33.8723, -88.4417
- Elevation
- 92 m above sea level
- Region
- Mississippi
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1162 km away
- Same name
- 26 more places in the world share this name
Look up the current time in Athens, Mississippi, United States, which follows the America/Chicago zone (−6).
Athens, United States
Saturday, 7 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Athens
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Athens keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
Sunrise 6:20 AM Solar noon 11:39 AM Sunset 4:58 PM Daylight 10 h 38 min Night 13 h 22 min Civil twilight 5:54 AM – 5:24 PM
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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.
Postal codes tied to Athens number 12.
The zone applied in Athens is America/Chicago with offset UTC−6. Whether clocks shift for daylight saving: No.
For Athens today, sunrise is 6:20 AM and sunset is 4:58 PM. Daylight lasts 10 h 38 min.
The local time of Athens is shared by neighbouring Bolivar (historical) and Monroe County.