Time in New Orleans, United States

Time zone: CDT (UTC/GMT -05:00) — America/Chicago

The local standard in New Orleans is CDT — UTC-05:00, or 5 hours behind UTC. Systems that store time zones by name use America/Chicago for this part of the world.

New Orleans observes daylight saving. The next change lands on Sunday, 01 November 2026, when 1 hour is added or removed and the abbreviation becomes CST.

United States is not on a single clock: the 419 cities listed here fall across 10 time zones, so times elsewhere in the country will not match New Orleans.

New Orleans has roughly 389,617 residents and ranks 33rd by population among the United States cities on this site.

Live differences from New Orleans, calculated from each zone's rules as they stand today rather than a fixed table.

Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in New Orleans local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.

No shared working window exists with Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai or Tokyo, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.

These United States cities also use America/Chicago, so their clocks read identically to New Orleans at every moment of the year.

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