Time in Lima
Lima runs on America/Lima, currently UTC-5. Its clocks never change, so that offset holds all year.
Lima, Peru
Zone facts
- IANA zone
- America/Lima
- Abbreviation
- —
- Standard offset
- UTC-5
- Daylight offset
- —
- Country
- Peru (PE)
- Coordinates
- -12.05, -77.04
Daylight saving time
This city does not observe daylight saving time. Its offset from UTC is the same on every day of the year.
Sunrise and sunset
Computed from the city’s latitude and longitude with the NOAA solar position algorithm — no API, no network call.
- Sunrise
- 06:19
- Sunset
- 18:04
- Daylight
- 11 hours 46 minutes
Against the major hubs
Common questions
- What time zone is Lima in?
- Lima uses the America/Lima time zone, currently UTC-5. Use the IANA identifier rather than the abbreviation in code — abbreviations are ambiguous, and this one may mean something else somewhere else.
- Does Lima observe daylight saving time?
- No. Lima keeps UTC-5 all year round, so its offset from UTC never changes.
- What is the difference between Lima and UTC?
- UTC-5 as of the last rebuild. That figure is constant, because the city does not change its clocks.
- When does the sun rise and set in Lima?
- On the day of the last rebuild, sunrise was 06:19 and sunset 18:04 local time, giving 11 hours 46 minutes of daylight. These are computed from the city’s latitude and longitude, not fetched from anywhere.