| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +5h | Becomes +4h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +6h | Becomes +5h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +8h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +13h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +14h | Becomes +15h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | ±0h | Becomes −1h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −3h | Becomes −4h on 1 Nov |
Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis runs on UTC−4. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−4 — daylight saving time is not observed. Basseterre 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 Basseterre lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Basseterre and London is 5 hours. 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 Basseterre lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Basseterre and Tokyo is 13 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 Caracas, La Paz, Santo Domingo. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Basseterre.
Basseterre (Saint Kitts and Nevis) is home to roughly 14K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:00, sunset at 18:00. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−4 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 17° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Capital
Basseterre 👑
Continent
North America
Time Zone
AST · America/St_Kitts
Coordinates
17.30°N, 62.72°W
Currency
XCD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
St Kitts built a 48-kilometre narrow-gauge railway around the island from 1912 to carry cane to the central mill. The sugar industry closed in 2005; the railway survives as a scenic line, marketed as "the last railway in the West Indies".
The clock: Basseterre keeps UTC−4. Brimstone Hill Fortress, above Sandy Point about 15 km from town, is a UNESCO site, built by enslaved labour over a century.
Basseterre lies at 62.7°W. Its time zone, UTC−4, is built around the 60°W meridian. The 2.7° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 11 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:11 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC−4 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 13h 10m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 6m. The swing between them is 2h 4m. Inside the tropics the day length stays within a narrow band all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Basseterre the sun comes up earliest on 5 June at 05:36, while the latest sunset waits until 8 July at 18:49. 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 Basseterre that civil twilight runs about 22 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 Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis is America/St_Kitts with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Basseterre has an estimated population of 14K and is located at coordinates 17.30°N, 62.72°W. It is the capital city of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Basseterre gets 13h 10m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 6m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Basseterre falls at about 12:11 on UTC−4 standard time, because the city sits 2.7° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Railway Built for Sugar: St Kitts built a 48-kilometre narrow-gauge railway around the island from 1912 to carry cane to the central mill.