Local time in Chile
Republic of Chile
Current local time in Chile — this country spans 4 time zones. The clocks below update live in your browser.
Chile spans 4 IANA time zones in total; the 3 principal zones (one per UTC offset) are shown above.
Time difference — Santiago
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Differences are relative to Santiago, Chile, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Chile
- Standard label
- UTC-4 (UTC-3 in summer)
- Standard offset (Santiago)
- UTC−4
- Daylight saving time
- Observed
- Number of time zones
- 4
- Capital
- Santiago
- IANA zones
- America/Coyhaique, America/Punta_Arenas, America/Santiago, Pacific/Easter
Chile uses UTC-4 (UTC-3 in summer) as its standard time across 4 IANA zones. Clocks move forward in summer for daylight saving time, so the local offset alternates seasonally around the UTC−4 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 Chile.
Sunrise and sunset in Santiago
At 33.4° south, Santiago gets 14 h 22 min of daylight around the December solstice but only 9 h 56 min around the June solstice — a difference of 4 h 26 min.
On standard time the sun is highest at about 12:43 on average — 43 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 | 06:55 | 13:55 | 20:54 | 13 h 59 min |
| 21 February | 07:25 | 13:57 | 20:30 | 13 h 05 min |
| 21 March | 07:47 | 13:51 | 19:54 | 12 h 07 min |
| 21 April | 07:10 | 12:42 | 18:14 | 11 h 04 min |
| 21 May | 07:32 | 12:40 | 17:48 | 10 h 16 min |
| 21 June | 07:47 | 12:45 | 17:43 | 9 h 56 min |
| 21 July | 07:42 | 12:50 | 17:57 | 10 h 15 min |
| 21 August | 07:15 | 12:47 | 18:18 | 11 h 03 min |
| 21 September | 07:34 | 13:37 | 19:39 | 12 h 04 min |
| 21 October | 06:55 | 13:28 | 20:01 | 13 h 06 min |
| 21 November | 06:30 | 13:29 | 20:29 | 14 h 00 min |
| 21 December | 06:30 | 13:41 | 20:53 | 14 h 22 min |
Calculated for Santiago (-33.44°, -70.65°; 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 Chile (America/Santiago)
Clocks in Santiago change twice a year. Clock changes in 2026 and 2027, in local time:
- BackSaturday 4 April 2026
Clocks go back 1 hour: 00:00 becomes 23:00 (UTC−3 → UTC−4) - ForwardSunday 6 September 2026
Clocks go forward 1 hour: 00:00 becomes 01:00 (UTC−4 → UTC−3) - BackSaturday 3 April 2027
Clocks go back 1 hour: 00:00 becomes 23:00 (UTC−3 → UTC−4) - ForwardSunday 5 September 2027
Clocks go forward 1 hour: 00:00 becomes 01:00 (UTC−4 → UTC−3)
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.