Local time in the Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
Current local time in the Dominican Republic (AST (UTC-4)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Santo Domingo
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Differences are relative to Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for the Dominican Republic
- Standard label
- AST (UTC-4)
- Standard offset (Santo Domingo)
- UTC−4
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Santo Domingo
- IANA zones
- America/Santo_Domingo
The Dominican Republic uses AST (UTC-4) as its standard time. 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 the Dominican Republic.
Sunrise and sunset in Santo Domingo
At 18.5° north, Santo Domingo gets 13 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 11 h 01 min around the December solstice — a difference of 2 h 13 min.
On standard time the sun is highest at about 12:40 on average — 40 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 | 07:16 | 12:52 | 18:28 | 11 h 12 min |
| 21 February | 07:05 | 12:54 | 18:44 | 11 h 39 min |
| 21 March | 06:44 | 12:48 | 18:52 | 12 h 08 min |
| 21 April | 06:19 | 12:39 | 18:59 | 12 h 39 min |
| 21 May | 06:05 | 12:37 | 19:09 | 13 h 04 min |
| 21 June | 06:05 | 12:42 | 19:19 | 13 h 14 min |
| 21 July | 06:14 | 12:47 | 19:19 | 13 h 05 min |
| 21 August | 06:24 | 12:44 | 19:04 | 12 h 40 min |
| 21 September | 06:29 | 12:34 | 18:38 | 12 h 09 min |
| 21 October | 06:36 | 12:25 | 18:14 | 11 h 38 min |
| 21 November | 06:51 | 12:27 | 18:03 | 11 h 12 min |
| 21 December | 07:08 | 12:39 | 18:09 | 11 h 01 min |
Calculated for Santo Domingo (18.46°, -69.94°; 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 Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic does not change its clocks: it stays on AST (UTC-4) 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.