Local time in Jamaica
Jamaica
Current local time in Jamaica (EST (UTC-5)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
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.
Sunrise and sunset in Kingston
At 18.0° north, Kingston gets 13 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 11 h 03 min around the December solstice — a difference of 2 h 09 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 06:42 | 12:19 | 17:56 | 11 h 14 min |
| 21 February | 06:32 | 12:22 | 18:12 | 11 h 39 min |
| 21 March | 06:11 | 12:15 | 18:19 | 12 h 08 min |
| 21 April | 05:47 | 12:06 | 18:26 | 12 h 38 min |
| 21 May | 05:34 | 12:05 | 18:36 | 13 h 02 min |
| 21 June | 05:34 | 12:10 | 18:46 | 13 h 12 min |
| 21 July | 05:43 | 12:14 | 18:46 | 13 h 03 min |
| 21 August | 05:52 | 12:11 | 18:31 | 12 h 39 min |
| 21 September | 05:57 | 12:01 | 18:06 | 12 h 09 min |
| 21 October | 06:03 | 11:52 | 17:42 | 11 h 39 min |
| 21 November | 06:17 | 11:54 | 17:31 | 11 h 13 min |
| 21 December | 06:35 | 12:06 | 17:38 | 11 h 03 min |
Calculated for Kingston (17.97°, -76.79°; 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 Jamaica
Jamaica does not change its clocks: it stays on EST (UTC-5) 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.