| 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 |
Colón, Panama runs on UTC−5. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−5 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Colón 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 Colón lines up with 10:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Colón 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 Colón lines up with 15:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Colón 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 Colón.
Colón (Panama) is home to roughly 205K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:08, sunset at 18:11. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−5 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 9° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Panama
Capital
Panama City
Continent
North America
Time Zone
EST · America/Panama
Coordinates
9.36°N, 79.90°W
Currency
PAB (B/.)
Calling Code
+507
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Colón Free Trade Zone, established in 1948, is the largest free port in the Americas and second largest in the world after Hong Kong, re-exporting billions of dollars of goods a year across Latin America.
The clock: Colón keeps UTC−5 at the Caribbean end of the Panama Canal. Ships entering here exit on the Pacific side to the southeast.
Colón lies at 79.9°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The 4.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 20 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:20 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC−5 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 12h 40m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 35m. The swing between them is 1h 6m. 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 Colón the sun comes up earliest on 29 May at 05:58, while the latest sunset waits until 15 July at 18:44. 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 Colón 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 Colón, Panama is America/Panama with a current UTC offset of UTC−5.
Colón has an estimated population of 205K and is located at coordinates 9.36°N, 79.90°W.
Colón gets 12h 40m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 35m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Colón falls at about 12:20 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 4.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Second-Largest Free Port: The Colón Free Trade Zone, established in 1948, is the largest free port in the Americas and second largest in the world after Hong Kong, re-exporting billions of dollars of goods a year across Latin America.