Baxter in numbers
- Coordinates
- 32.1913, -89.1698
- Elevation
- 195 m above sea level
- Region
- Mississippi
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 1325 km away
- Same name
- 23 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Baxter, Mississippi, United States
This page reports the local time in Baxter, Mississippi, United States, set by the America/Chicago time zone (−5).
Baxter, United States
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Baxter
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
Baxter keeps America/Chicago clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:02 AM Solar noon 12:43 PM Sunset 6:25 PM Daylight 11 h 23 min Night 12 h 37 min Civil twilight 6:37 AM – 6:49 PM
Weather in Baxter right now
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Baxter and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 26560
- 38544
- 40806
- 50028
- 56425
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 Mississippi
- Jackson 153 701
- Gulfport 71 856
- West Gulfport 71 329
- Southaven 52 589
- Hattiesburg 46 805
- Biloxi 45 637
Other places named Baxter
- Baxter Minnesota, United States
- Baxter Victoria, Australia
- Baxter Tennessee, United States
- Baxter Iowa, United States
- Baxter Ontario, Canada
Same time zone — America/Chicago
- Chicago United States
- Houston United States
- San Antonio United States
- Dallas United States
- Fort Worth United States
- Austin United States
Nearby places
- Jewells Hill (historical) — 3.1 km
- Garlandville — 5.4 km
- Verba — 6.2 km
- Roberts — 7.0 km
- Volcan (historical) — 8.2 km
- Calhoun — 8.7 km
About the time in Baxter
Baxter tells time by America/Chicago, an offset of UTC−5. Clock shift for daylight saving: Yes.
Today in Baxter, daylight opens at 7:02 AM and closes at 6:25 PM. That span measures 11 h 23 min.
The time you see for Baxter is also correct for Jewells Hill (historical) and Garlandville.
Coverage of Baxter by postal code amounts to 5 entries.
Questions and answers
- How is Baxter's time zone listed?
- Baxter's time zone is listed as America/Chicago, with an offset of −5.
- Does the time in Baxter shift by an hour at any point in the year?
- Yes.
- What time does the day end in Baxter?
- The sun sets at 6:25 PM.