| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +6h | Becomes +5h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +7h | Becomes +6h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +9h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +14h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +15h | Becomes +16h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | +1h | Becomes ±0h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −2h | Becomes −3h on 1 Nov |
Ambato, Ecuador runs on UTC−5. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−5 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Ambato and New York is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–17:00 in Ambato lines up with 10:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Ambato and London is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–12:00 in Ambato lines up with 15:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Ambato and Tokyo is 14 hours. 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 Bogotá, Lima, Quito. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Ambato.
Ambato (Ecuador) is home to roughly 390K people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:00, sunset at 18:08. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−5 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 1° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Ecuador
Capital
Quito
Continent
South America
Time Zone
UTC−5 · America/Guayaquil
Coordinates
1.24°S, 78.62°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+593
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The 1949 Ambato earthquake killed more than 5,000 people and destroyed most of the city. Its Festival of Flowers and Fruits was first held in 1951, explicitly as an act of recovery, and has run every year at Carnival time since.
The clock: Ambato keeps UTC−5 at about 2,570 metres, beneath Tungurahua, which erupted repeatedly between 1999 and 2016.
Ambato lies at 78.6°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The 3.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 14 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:14 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC−5 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 12h 12m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 12h 3m. The swing between them is 9 minutes. Within a few degrees of the equator the length of the day barely moves all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Ambato the sun comes up earliest on 4 November at 05:53, while the latest sunset waits until 11 February at 18:33. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Ambato that civil twilight runs about 21 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Ambato, Ecuador is America/Guayaquil with a current UTC offset of UTC−5.
Ambato has an estimated population of 390K and is located at coordinates 1.24°S, 78.62°W.
Ambato gets 12h 12m of daylight on its longest day and 12h 3m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Ambato falls at about 12:14 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 3.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City Rebuilt After the Earth Moved: The 1949 Ambato earthquake killed more than 5,000 people and destroyed most of the city.