Local time in Haiti
Republic of Haiti
Current local time in Haiti (EST (UTC-5)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Port-au-Prince
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Differences are relative to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Haiti
- Standard label
- EST (UTC-5)
- Standard offset (Port-au-Prince)
- UTC−5
- Daylight saving time
- Observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Port-au-Prince
- IANA zones
- America/Port-au-Prince
Haiti 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 Haiti.
Sunrise and sunset in Port-au-Prince
At 18.5° north, Port-au-Prince gets 13 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 11 h 01 min around the December solstice — a difference of 2 h 14 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 06:25 | 12:01 | 17:37 | 11 h 12 min |
| 21 February | 06:15 | 12:04 | 17:53 | 11 h 39 min |
| 21 March | 06:53 | 12:57 | 19:01 | 12 h 08 min |
| 21 April | 06:29 | 12:49 | 19:08 | 12 h 40 min |
| 21 May | 06:15 | 12:47 | 19:19 | 13 h 04 min |
| 21 June | 06:15 | 12:52 | 19:29 | 13 h 15 min |
| 21 July | 06:24 | 12:56 | 19:29 | 13 h 05 min |
| 21 August | 06:33 | 12:54 | 19:14 | 12 h 40 min |
| 21 September | 06:39 | 12:43 | 18:48 | 12 h 09 min |
| 21 October | 06:46 | 12:35 | 18:24 | 11 h 38 min |
| 21 November | 06:00 | 11:36 | 17:12 | 11 h 12 min |
| 21 December | 06:18 | 11:48 | 17:19 | 11 h 01 min |
Calculated for Port-au-Prince (18.55°, -72.34°; 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 Haiti
Clocks in Port-au-Prince 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.