Time in Lima
Peru · America/Lima · latitude -12.05°
Reading your clock…
Lima never changes its clocks
Lima stays on UTC-05:00 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Lima and a city that does observe daylight saving still moves twice a year, because the other end moved. A recurring call can drift by an hour without anything changing here at all.
Time difference from Lima
Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.
| City | Difference now | Across the year |
|---|---|---|
| London | 6 hours ahead | +5h / +6h |
| New York | 1 hour ahead | 0 / +1h |
| Los Angeles | 2 hours behind | −3h / −2h |
| Chicago | the same time | −1h / 0 |
| Toronto | 1 hour ahead | 0 / +1h |
| Paris | 7 hours ahead | +6h / +7h |
| Berlin | 7 hours ahead | +6h / +7h |
| Dubai | 9 hours ahead | constant |
| Mumbai | 10 hours 30 minutes ahead | constant |
| Singapore | 13 hours ahead | constant |
| Hong Kong | 13 hours ahead | constant |
| Tokyo | 14 hours ahead | constant |
| Sydney | 15 hours ahead | +15h / +16h |
| Auckland | 17 hours ahead | +17h / +18h |
| São Paulo | 2 hours ahead | constant |
| UTC | 5 hours ahead | constant |
Daylight in Lima through the year
From about 11.4 hours in June to 12.8 hours in December. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 05:49 | 18:33 | 12h 44m |
| February | 06:02 | 18:27 | 12h 25m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 06:06 | 17:53 | 11h 47m |
| May | 06:11 | 17:43 | 11h 32m |
| June | 06:19 | 17:44 | 11h 25m |
| July | 06:22 | 17:52 | 11h 30m |
| August | 06:11 | 17:57 | 11h 46m |
| September | 05:51 | 17:56 | 12h 5m |
| October | 05:33 | 17:57 | 12h 24m |
| November | 05:25 | 18:08 | 12h 43m |
| December | 05:33 | 18:23 | 12h 50m |
Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.
Questions
About time in Lima
What time zone is Lima in?
Lima uses the IANA time zone America/Lima, a fixed UTC-05:00 with no daylight saving.
Does Lima observe daylight saving time?
No. Lima stays on UTC-05:00 all year. That does not mean the gap between Lima and other cities is fixed, though: when a city that does observe daylight saving changes its clocks, the difference between you and them moves even though nothing changed here.
Why does the time difference to Lima keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions. London is a clear example: it sits 5 hours ahead, then 6 hours ahead across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Lima get?
Around 12.8 hours at the longest, in December, and about 11.4 hours at the shortest, in June. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Lima's latitude of -12.05° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.