Local time in the Bahamas
Commonwealth of the Bahamas
Current local time in the Bahamas (EST (UTC-5)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Nassau
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Differences are relative to Nassau, the Bahamas, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for the Bahamas
- Standard label
- EST (UTC-5)
- Standard offset (Nassau)
- UTC−5
- Daylight saving time
- Observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Nassau
- IANA zones
- America/Toronto
The Bahamas uses EST (UTC-5) as its standard time. Clocks move forward in summer for daylight saving time, so the local offset alternates seasonally around the UTC−5 standard. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in the Bahamas.
Sunrise and sunset in Nassau
At 25.1° north, Nassau gets 13 h 42 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 10 h 35 min around the December solstice — a difference of 3 h 07 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 06:56 | 12:21 | 17:46 | 10 h 50 min |
| 21 February | 06:40 | 12:24 | 18:08 | 11 h 28 min |
| 21 March | 07:13 | 13:17 | 19:21 | 12 h 08 min |
| 21 April | 06:42 | 13:09 | 19:35 | 12 h 53 min |
| 21 May | 06:23 | 13:07 | 19:51 | 13 h 27 min |
| 21 June | 06:21 | 13:12 | 20:03 | 13 h 42 min |
| 21 July | 06:32 | 13:16 | 20:01 | 13 h 28 min |
| 21 August | 06:47 | 13:13 | 19:40 | 12 h 54 min |
| 21 September | 06:58 | 13:03 | 19:08 | 12 h 10 min |
| 21 October | 07:11 | 12:55 | 18:38 | 11 h 27 min |
| 21 November | 06:31 | 11:56 | 17:21 | 10 h 50 min |
| 21 December | 06:51 | 12:08 | 17:25 | 10 h 35 min |
Calculated for Nassau (25.08°, -77.34°; 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 the Bahamas
Clocks in Nassau change twice a year. Clock changes in 2026 and 2027, in local time:
- ForwardSunday 8 March 2026
Clocks go forward 1 hour: 02:00 becomes 03:00 (UTC−5 → UTC−4) - BackSunday 1 November 2026
Clocks go back 1 hour: 02:00 becomes 01:00 (UTC−4 → UTC−5) - ForwardSunday 14 March 2027
Clocks go forward 1 hour: 02:00 becomes 03:00 (UTC−5 → UTC−4) - BackSunday 7 November 2027
Clocks go back 1 hour: 02:00 becomes 01:00 (UTC−4 → UTC−5)
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.