Miami
UTC−4United States · EDT
Sat, 8 Aug 2026
Timezone Guide
Miami, United States runs on UTC−4. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−5 in winter, UTC−4 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. Miami 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 Miami lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. There is a 5-hour difference between Miami 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 Miami lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. There is a 13-hour difference between Miami 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 Miami.
Practical Info
Miami (United States) is home to roughly 6.1M people. Today brings about 13.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:24, sunset at 20:06. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−5 in winter, UTC−4 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 26° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
United States
Capital
Washington, D.C.
Continent
North America
Time Zone
EDT · America/New_York
Coordinates
25.76°N, 80.19°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
The Cruise Capital of the World Came Second
1. 8,564,225 people boarded or left a cruise ship at PortMiami last year.
That is the official figure for Fiscal Year 2025, running from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025 — a record, up 4.02% on the previous year's 8,233,056.
Divide it by the days and it comes to roughly 23,500 people a day, every day, moving through one port.
2. It was still not the busiest cruise port in the world.
Port Canaveral, 350 kilometres up the same coast, recorded 8,602,047 passenger movements in the same fiscal year.
The margin is 37,822 people — out of 8.6 million, a difference of about 0.44%. It is the second time Canaveral has taken the title; the first was in 2022.
PortMiami's registered slogan is still Cruise Capital of the World®. The trademark is intact. The ranking, for now, is not.
3. The cargo side crossed a million containers for the eleventh year running.
1,115,058 TEUs in FY2025, up 2.35%. The port supports over 340,000 jobs and is Florida's largest international cargo gateway.
4. And the terminals keep getting larger.
MSC opened what it describes as the world's largest cruise terminal in March: 492,678 square feet, designed to handle three ships at once and up to 36,000 embarking and disembarking passengers in a day. Royal Caribbean's Terminal G is due in late 2027.
The clock: Miami sits at about 80° west, on Eastern Time, which is calculated for the 75th meridian. That leaves the city roughly 21 minutes ahead of its own solar noon.
The port itself runs on a much tighter schedule than that. Cruise ships turn around on fixed weekly cycles — the same ships, the same days, the same berths — which is why a number as large as 23,500 people a day can be predicted a year in advance.
So: a port that moves the population of a small city every day, on a timetable set twelve months ahead, holding a trademark for a title it currently does not hold.
Sources
- Miami-Dade County resmî basın açıklaması, 2 Aralık 2025 (2025 mali yılı: 8.564.225 kruvaziyer yolcusu, önceki yıl 8.233.056'ya göre %4,02 artış, limanın tarihindeki en yüksek yıllık sayı; 1.115.058 TEU, %2,35 artış, üst üste 11. yıl bir milyonun üzerinde)
- Seatrade Cruise ve UPI (Port Canaveral'ın aynı mali yılda 8.602.047 yolcu hareketiyle dünyanın en yoğun kruvaziyer limanı olması; unvanı ikinci kez alması, ilki 2022)
- Royal Caribbean Blog (MSC'nin mart ayında açtığı 492.678 fit karelik Terminal AA; aynı anda üç gemi, günde 36.000'e varan yolcu; Terminal G'nin 2027 sonu hedefi)
- Hoodline / PortMiami (340.000'den fazla istihdam)
- Boylam hesabı: Miami 80,2°B, Doğu Saati meridyeni 75°B → ~21 dakika
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
5h overlap