La Paz
UTC−4Bolivia · BOT
Sat, 8 Aug 2026
Timezone Guide
La Paz, Bolivia runs on UTC−4. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−4 — daylight saving time is not observed. La Paz and New York currently share the same clock. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 9 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–18:00 in La Paz lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. There is a 5-hour difference between La Paz and London. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–13:00 in La Paz lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. There is a 13-hour difference between La Paz and Tokyo. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with Tokyo, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Toronto, Caracas, Havana. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from La Paz.
Practical Info
La Paz (Bolivia) is home to roughly 2.3M people. Today brings about 11.3 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:54, sunset at 18:12. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−4 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 17° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Bolivia
Capital
Sucre
Continent
South America
Time Zone
BOT · America/La_Paz
Coordinates
16.50°S, 68.15°W
Currency
BOB (Bs.)
Calling Code
+591
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
A Cable Car System That Gives Commuters Back 16 Days a Year
1. Around 200,000 people commute by cable car in La Paz every day.
Mi Teleférico is the world's longest and highest urban cable car network: ten colour-coded lines, 26 stations, and roughly 33 kilometres of line strung above the city. It was built by the Austrian firm Doppelmayr; the first three lines opened in 2014.
Bolivia is the first country anywhere to use cable cars as the backbone of a public transport system rather than as a tourist attraction.
2. There are 1,506 gondolas, and they leave the stations every 12 seconds.
Not every twelve minutes. Twelve seconds. The system runs from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., and between El Alto and La Paz it moves roughly 3,000 people an hour. A single-line ticket costs 3 bolivianos, about forty US cents — around 40% cheaper than the minibuses it replaced.
3. It exists because of a 500-metre vertical drop.
La Paz sits at about 3,600 metres; El Alto, on the plateau directly above it, is at roughly 4,000 metres and home to around a million people, the majority Aymara. The two are only about eleven kilometres apart by road, but the route is steep, winding and permanently congested. The journey used to take an hour or more each way.
By cable car it takes ten or eleven minutes.
4. Which adds up to sixteen days a year, per person.
That is the figure calculated for regular users of the Red and Yellow lines — the two that connect El Alto to La Paz, and which alone account for more than 75% of all trips on the network. The system is also credited with cutting the city's daily fuel consumption by around 7,000 gallons.
A public transport project measured not in passengers or kilometres but in days of life handed back.
The clock: La Paz is the highest administrative capital in the world, and La Paz–El Alto together form the world's highest metropolitan area, above 3,650 metres.
The city sits at about 68° west, on UTC−4, which is built for the 60th meridian — leaving La Paz roughly 32 minutes ahead of its own solar noon.
So: a city that solved a traffic problem by going over it instead of through it, and measures the result in days rather than minutes.
Sources
- Wikipedia, *Mi Teleférico* (Ekim 2019 itibarıyla 26 istasyon, on hat ve renkleri; 2014'te ilk üç hattın açılışı)
- The World / PRX (günde 200.000 yolcu; 10 hat, 26 istasyon; dünyanın en uzun ve en yüksek teleferik sistemi; commute'un 1,5 saatten 11 dakikaya inmesi)
- SA Expeditions (**1.506 kabinin 12 saniye aralıklarla kalkması**; Kırmızı ve Sarı hatların yolculukların %75'inden fazlasını taşıması; **kullanıcı başına yılda ortalama 16 gün tasarruf**; günlük 7.000 galon yakıt azalması; 3 boliviano bilet ve minibüslere göre %40 ucuzluk; Doppelmayr)
- Trans-Americas Journey (32,7 km ağ uzunluğu; hatların 828 metre yükselip alçalması)
- Inclusive Infrastructure / Global Infrastructure Hub (La Paz 3.650 m, El Alto 4.000 m üzeri; El Alto'nun ~1 milyon nüfusu ve Aymara çoğunluğu; Bolivya'nın teleferiği omurga olarak kullanan ilk ülke olması)
- La Paz Life (saatte ~3.000 kişi)
- Boylam hesabı: La Paz 68,1°B, UTC−4 meridyeni 60°B → ~32 dakika
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
5h overlap