Local time in Jamaica
Jamaica
Current local time in Jamaica (EST (UTC-5)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
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Time difference — Kingston
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Differences are relative to Kingston, Jamaica, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Jamaica
- Standard label
- EST (UTC-5)
- Standard offset (Kingston)
- UTC−5
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Kingston
- IANA zones
- America/Jamaica
Jamaica uses EST (UTC-5) 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 Jamaica.