Local time in El Salvador
Republic of El Salvador
Current local time in El Salvador (CST (UTC-6)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — San Salvador
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Differences are relative to San Salvador, El Salvador, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for El Salvador
- Standard label
- CST (UTC-6)
- Standard offset (San Salvador)
- UTC−6
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- San Salvador
- IANA zones
- America/El_Salvador
El Salvador uses CST (UTC-6) 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 El Salvador.
Sunrise and sunset in San Salvador
At 13.7° north, San Salvador gets 12 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 11 h 19 min around the December solstice — a difference of 1 h 37 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 06:25 | 12:09 | 17:52 | 11 h 27 min |
| 21 February | 06:18 | 12:11 | 18:04 | 11 h 46 min |
| 21 March | 06:01 | 12:05 | 18:08 | 12 h 07 min |
| 21 April | 05:41 | 11:56 | 18:11 | 12 h 31 min |
| 21 May | 05:30 | 11:54 | 18:19 | 12 h 49 min |
| 21 June | 05:31 | 11:59 | 18:27 | 12 h 56 min |
| 21 July | 05:39 | 12:04 | 18:28 | 12 h 49 min |
| 21 August | 05:45 | 12:01 | 18:16 | 12 h 31 min |
| 21 September | 05:47 | 11:51 | 17:55 | 12 h 08 min |
| 21 October | 05:49 | 11:42 | 17:35 | 11 h 46 min |
| 21 November | 06:00 | 11:44 | 17:27 | 11 h 27 min |
| 21 December | 06:16 | 11:56 | 17:35 | 11 h 19 min |
Calculated for San Salvador (13.70°, -89.19°; 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 El Salvador
El Salvador does not change its clocks: it stays on CST (UTC-6) 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.