Local time in Argentina
Argentine Republic
Current local time in Argentina — this country spans 12 time zones. The clocks below update live in your browser.
Argentina spans 12 IANA time zones in total; the 1 principal zones (one per UTC offset) are shown above.
Time difference — Buenos Aires
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Differences are relative to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Argentina
- Standard label
- UTC-3
- Standard offset (Buenos Aires)
- UTC−3
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 12
- Capital
- Buenos Aires
- IANA zones
- America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires, America/Argentina/Catamarca, America/Argentina/Cordoba, America/Argentina/Jujuy, America/Argentina/La_Rioja, America/Argentina/Mendoza, America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos, America/Argentina/Salta +4 more
Argentina uses UTC-3 as its standard time across 12 IANA zones. Clocks stay on the same offset all year round — daylight saving time is not observed. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in Argentina.
Sunrise and sunset in Buenos Aires
At 34.6° south, Buenos Aires gets 14 h 28 min of daylight around the December solstice but only 9 h 50 min around the June solstice — a difference of 4 h 38 min.
On standard time the sun is highest at about 12:54 on average — 54 minutes after 12:00 — because the clocks are set ahead of local solar time, which gives long, light evenings.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 06:03 | 13:05 | 20:08 | 14 h 05 min |
| 21 February | 06:34 | 13:08 | 19:42 | 13 h 07 min |
| 21 March | 06:58 | 13:02 | 19:05 | 12 h 07 min |
| 21 April | 07:22 | 12:53 | 18:24 | 11 h 02 min |
| 21 May | 07:45 | 12:51 | 17:57 | 10 h 11 min |
| 21 June | 08:01 | 12:56 | 17:51 | 9 h 50 min |
| 21 July | 07:56 | 13:01 | 18:05 | 10 h 10 min |
| 21 August | 07:28 | 12:58 | 18:28 | 11 h 00 min |
| 21 September | 06:45 | 12:47 | 18:50 | 12 h 04 min |
| 21 October | 06:05 | 12:39 | 19:13 | 13 h 08 min |
| 21 November | 05:38 | 12:40 | 19:43 | 14 h 05 min |
| 21 December | 05:38 | 12:52 | 20:07 | 14 h 28 min |
Calculated for Buenos Aires (-34.60°, -58.38°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in Argentina (America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires)
Argentina does not change its clocks in the America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires zone: it stays on UTC-3 all year in 2026 and 2027.
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.