Lafayette in numbers
- Coordinates
- 41.5707, -71.4773
- Elevation
- 23 m above sea level
- Region
- Rhode Island
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 558 km away
- Same name
- 27 more places in the world share this name
This page answers what time it is in Lafayette, Rhode Island, United States right now, in the America/New_York zone (−5).
Lafayette, United States
Saturday, 14 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/New_York
Local time in Lafayette
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Lafayette, Rhode Island.
Sunrise 6:35 AM Solar noon 11:32 AM Sunset 4:29 PM Daylight 9 h 54 min Night 14 h 06 min Civil twilight 6:05 AM – 4:58 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.
Lafayette contains 12 postal codes.
Local timekeeping in Lafayette uses America/New_York, equal to UTC−5. Summer clock change: No.
Sunrise reaches Lafayette at 6:35 AM, and the sun sets at 4:29 PM. Light lasts 9 h 54 min.
Set your clock for Lafayette and it will also be right in Wickford and Belleville.