| 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 |
Columbia, 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. Columbia 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 Columbia lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Columbia 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 Columbia lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Columbia 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 Columbia.
Columbia (United States) is home to roughly 140K people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:17, sunset at 19:10. 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 34° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
United States
Capital
Washington DC
Continent
North America
Time Zone
EDT · America/New_York
Coordinates
34.00°N, 81.03°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
Columbia was laid out in 1786 as a planned capital on a two-mile square grid, one of the first such purpose-built state capitals in the United States. Sherman's army burned much of it in February 1865.
The clock: Columbia keeps Eastern Time. Its Riverbanks Zoo sits across two counties and a river.
Columbia lies at 81.0°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The 6.0° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 24 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:24 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 84 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:24.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 25m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 53m. The swing between them is 4h 32m. At this latitude the seasons are visible in the clock, but never dramatic.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Columbia the sun comes up earliest on 13 June at 06:12, while the latest sunset waits until 1 July at 20:39. 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 Columbia that civil twilight runs about 25 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 Columbia, United States is America/New_York with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Columbia has an estimated population of 140K and is located at coordinates 34.00°N, 81.03°W.
Columbia gets 14h 25m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 53m on its shortest, averaging 12h 11m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Columbia falls at about 12:24 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 6.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Planned State Capital: Columbia was laid out in 1786 as a planned capital on a two-mile square grid, one of the first such purpose-built state capitals in the United States. Sherman's army burned much of it in February 1865.