Time in Panama City
Panama · America/Panama · latitude 8.98°
Reading your clock…
Panama City never changes its clocks
Panama City stays on UTC-05:00 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Panama City 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 Panama City
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 Panama City through the year
From about 11.6 hours in December to 12.7 hours in June. 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 | 06:21 | 18:02 | 11h 41m |
| February | 06:18 | 18:11 | 11h 53m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 05:49 | 18:10 | 12h 21m |
| May | 05:40 | 18:14 | 12h 34m |
| June | 05:42 | 18:21 | 12h 39m |
| July | 05:50 | 18:24 | 12h 34m |
| August | 05:53 | 18:15 | 12h 22m |
| September | 05:50 | 17:57 | 12h 7m |
| October | 05:48 | 17:42 | 11h 54m |
| November | 05:56 | 17:37 | 11h 41m |
| December | 06:10 | 17:46 | 11h 36m |
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 Panama City
What time zone is Panama City in?
Panama City uses the IANA time zone America/Panama, a fixed UTC-05:00 with no daylight saving.
Does Panama City observe daylight saving time?
No. Panama City stays on UTC-05:00 all year. That does not mean the gap between Panama City 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 Panama City 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 Panama City get?
Around 12.7 hours at the longest, in June, and about 11.6 hours at the shortest, in December. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Panama City's latitude of 8.98° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.