Local time in Guatemala
Republic of Guatemala
Current local time in Guatemala (CST (UTC-6)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Guatemala City
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Differences are relative to Guatemala City, Guatemala, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Guatemala
- Standard label
- CST (UTC-6)
- Standard offset (Guatemala City)
- UTC−6
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Guatemala City
- IANA zones
- America/Guatemala
Guatemala 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 Guatemala.
Sunrise and sunset in Guatemala City
At 14.6° north, Guatemala City gets 13 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 11 h 16 min around the December solstice — a difference of 1 h 44 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 06:32 | 12:14 | 17:56 | 11 h 24 min |
| 21 February | 06:24 | 12:17 | 18:09 | 11 h 45 min |
| 21 March | 06:06 | 12:10 | 18:14 | 12 h 07 min |
| 21 April | 05:45 | 12:01 | 18:18 | 12 h 32 min |
| 21 May | 05:34 | 12:00 | 18:25 | 12 h 52 min |
| 21 June | 05:35 | 12:05 | 18:34 | 13 h 00 min |
| 21 July | 05:43 | 12:09 | 18:35 | 12 h 52 min |
| 21 August | 05:50 | 12:06 | 18:23 | 12 h 33 min |
| 21 September | 05:52 | 11:56 | 18:00 | 12 h 08 min |
| 21 October | 05:55 | 11:47 | 17:39 | 11 h 44 min |
| 21 November | 06:07 | 11:49 | 17:31 | 11 h 24 min |
| 21 December | 06:23 | 12:01 | 17:39 | 11 h 16 min |
Calculated for Guatemala City (14.64°, -90.51°; 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 Guatemala
Guatemala 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.