Lafayette in numbers
- Coordinates
- 36.5212, -86.0264
- Elevation
- 292 m above sea level
- Population
- 4 991
- Region
- Tennessee
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 833 km away
- Same name
- 27 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Lafayette, Tennessee, United States
This page answers what time it is in Lafayette, Tennessee, United States right now, in the America/Chicago zone (−5).
Lafayette, United States
Saturday, 31 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Chicago
Local time in Lafayette
UTC−5 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Lafayette.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:07 AM Solar noon 12:29 PM Sunset 5:50 PM Daylight 10 h 43 min Night 13 h 17 min Civil twilight 6:41 AM – 6:17 PM
Weather in Lafayette right now
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Lafayette and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 07848
- 36862
- 37083
- 45854
- 47901
- 47902
- 47903
- 47904
- 47905
- 47909
- 56054
- 70501
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 Tennessee
- Nashville 689 447
- New South Memphis 641 608
- Memphis 633 104
- Knoxville 190 740
- Chattanooga 181 099
- Clarksville 166 722
Other places named Lafayette
- Lafayette Louisiana, United States
- Lafayette Indiana, United States
- Lafayette Colorado, United States
- Lafayette California, United States
- Lafayette Georgia, United States
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
- Macon County — 2.1 km
- Brattontown — 3.0 km
- Williams — 3.6 km
- Days Crossroads — 3.7 km
- Maple Grove — 4.2 km
- Meadorville — 5.3 km
Local time details for Lafayette
For Macon County and Brattontown near Lafayette, the clock reads the same.
Within Lafayette, postal codes number 12.
In Lafayette the time zone is America/Chicago and the offset is UTC−5. Daylight saving time used: Yes.
Today's times for Lafayette: the sun is up at 7:07 AM and down at 5:50 PM. That means 10 h 43 min of daylight.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is Lafayette in?
- Lafayette is in the America/Chicago time zone, with an offset of −5.
- Does Lafayette take part in daylight saving time?
- Daylight saving time in Lafayette: Yes.
- What time does the day start in Lafayette?
- The sun rises at 7:07 AM.