Time in Colombia now
9:06AMUTC−5
UTC−5+0 h vs New York (you)America/Bogota
No clock changes: Colombia stays on UTC−5 all year.
Time zone in Colombia
Colombia uses a single time zone: UTC−5 all year. Every clock in the country shows the same time.
Bogotá lies at 74.1° west, where mean solar time is UTC−4:56 (four minutes per degree of longitude). That is within 4 min of its clock time, so the sun is highest close to noon.
Daylight saving time in Colombia
No. Colombia does not change its clocks under the current rules. It last used daylight saving time in 1992.
Clock history of Colombia
The record begins with local mean time (clocks set by the sun, UTC−4:56 in Bogotá), which ended on March 13, 1884, when BMT (UTC−4:56) replaced it. Between 1970 and 2024, a daylight saving period began in 1 of the 55 years, most recently in 1992. The first summer time in the record dates from 1992. The table summarises the clocks of Colombia year by year since 1970, from the tzdata entry America/Bogota.
| Years | Clocks | Abbreviations |
|---|---|---|
| 1970–1991 | UTC−5 all year | — |
| 1992 | UTC−5 until May 2, then UTC−4 | — |
| 1993 | UTC−4 until February 7, then UTC−5 | — |
| 1994 onward | UTC−5 all year | — |
Rows from 2027 on follow the rules in tzdata 2026f; a government decision would change them in the next release.
Convert Colombia time
Time difference between Colombia and major cities
| City | Local time now | Colombia vs city now | January | July | Office overlap Jan / Jul |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 9:06 AM Tue, Nov 3 | +0 h | 0 h | −1 h | 8 h / 7 h |
| Los Angeles | 6:06 AM Tue, Nov 3 | +3 h | +3 h | +2 h | 5 h / 6 h |
| London | 2:06 PM Tue, Nov 3 | −5 h | −5 h | −6 h | 3 h / 2 h |
| Berlin | 3:06 PM Tue, Nov 3 | −6 h | −6 h | −7 h | 2 h / 1 h |
| Dubai | 6:06 PM Tue, Nov 3 | −9 h | −9 h | −9 h | none / none |
| New Delhi | 7:36 PM Tue, Nov 3 | −10 h 30 min | −10 h 30 min | −10 h 30 min | none / none |
| Singapore | 10:06 PM Tue, Nov 3 | −13 h | −13 h | −13 h | none / none |
| Beijing | 10:06 PM Tue, Nov 3 | −13 h | −13 h | −13 h | none / none |
| Tokyo | 11:06 PM Tue, Nov 3 | −14 h | −14 h | −14 h | none / none |
Office hours and calls
With JavaScript on, this line shows how Colombia’s office hours overlap yours today.
A 9-to-5 day in Colombia overlaps London’s for 3 h in January (9:00 AM–12:00 PM Colombia time), 2 h in July. At 9:00 AM in Colombia it is 2:00 PM in London.
Colombia and New Delhi share no office hours: when offices open at 9:00 AM in Colombia, it is 7:30 PM in New Delhi. A call has to be early or late for one side: 9:30 PM the day before in Colombia is 8:00 AM in New Delhi.
Neighbouring time zones
The nearest large cities on a different clock, with the straight-line distance from Bogotá and the difference now.
| City | Distance | Time now | Their clock vs here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maracaibo Venezuela | 720 km | 10:06 AM UTC−4 | +1 h |
| San José Costa Rica | 1,250 km | 8:06 AM CST | −1 h |
| Port-au-Prince Haiti | 1,560 km | 9:06 AM EST | +0 h |
| Paramaribo Suriname | 2,100 km | 11:06 AM UTC−3 | +2 h |
| Havana Cuba | 2,240 km | 10:06 AM CDT | +1 h |
Same clock as Colombia
These places keep exactly the same time as Colombia all year under the current rules (zones America/Cancun, America/Eirunepe, America/Guayaquil, America/Jamaica, America/Lima and 3 more).
Cities in Colombia
Colombia at a glance
- CapitalBogotá
- Population53,425,635
- Time zone IDAmerica/Bogota
- Standard timeUTC−5
- Daylight saving timenone
- Calling code+57