| 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 | Becomes +9h on 1 Nov |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +13h | Becomes +14h on 1 Nov |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +14h | Becomes +15h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | ±0h | |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −3h | Becomes −2h on 31 Oct |
Cockburn Town, Turks and Caicos Islands 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. Cockburn Town 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 Cockburn Town lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Cockburn Town 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 Cockburn Town lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Cockburn Town 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 Toronto, Havana, Washington DC. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Cockburn Town.
Cockburn Town (Turks and Caicos Islands) is home to roughly 5K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:35, sunset at 18:33. 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 21° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Turks and Caicos Islands
Capital
Cockburn Town 👑
Continent
North America
Time Zone
EDT · America/Grand_Turk
Coordinates
21.46°N, 71.14°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
John Glenn's Friendship 7 capsule splashed down in the Atlantic in February 1962 after the first American orbital flight, and he was then flown to Grand Turk for two days of debriefing.
The clock: Cockburn Town keeps UTC−5 and follows US daylight saving dates. Its salt pans worked from the 17th century until 1964.
Cockburn Town lies at 71.1°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The 3.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 15 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:45 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 45 minutes and pushing solar noon to 12:45.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 13h 26m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 49m. The swing between them is 2h 37m. 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 Cockburn Town the sun comes up earliest on 1 November at 05:47, while the latest sunset waits until 6 July at 19:31. 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 Cockburn Town 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 Cockburn Town, Turks and Caicos Islands is America/Grand_Turk with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Cockburn Town has an estimated population of 5K and is located at coordinates 21.46°N, 71.14°W. It is the capital city of Turks and Caicos Islands.
Cockburn Town gets 13h 26m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 49m on its shortest, averaging 12h 9m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Cockburn Town falls at about 11:45 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 3.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Where Glenn Was Debriefed: John Glenn's Friendship 7 capsule splashed down in the Atlantic in February 1962 after the first American orbital flight, and he was then flown to Grand Turk for two days of debriefing.