| 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 |
Cusco, Peru runs on UTC−5. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−5 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Cusco 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 Cusco lines up with 10:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Cusco 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 Cusco lines up with 15:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Cusco 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 Cusco.
Cusco (Peru) is home to roughly 430K people. Today brings about 12.2 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:31, sunset at 17:44. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−5 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 14° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Peru
Capital
Lima
Continent
South America
Time Zone
UTC−5 · America/Lima
Coordinates
13.53°S, 71.97°W
Currency
PEN (S/)
Calling Code
+51
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Inca walls of Cusco are cut so precisely that a blade will not fit between the blocks, and they have survived earthquakes that brought down the colonial buildings placed on top of them. The twelve-angled stone on Hatun Rumiyoc is the most famous single example.
The clock: Cusco keeps UTC−5 at 3,400 metres. Inti Raymi, the Inca sun festival, is still staged each 24 June, just after the winter solstice.
Cusco lies at 72.0°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The 3.0° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 12 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:48 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 55m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 11h 20m. The swing between them is 1h 36m. 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 Cusco the sun comes up earliest on 21 November at 05:11, while the latest sunset waits until 24 January at 18:22. 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 Cusco 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 Cusco, Peru is America/Lima with a current UTC offset of UTC−5.
Cusco has an estimated population of 430K and is located at coordinates 13.53°S, 71.97°W.
Cusco gets 12h 55m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 20m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Cusco falls at about 11:48 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 3.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Stones Fitted Without Mortar: The Inca walls of Cusco are cut so precisely that a blade will not fit between the blocks, and they have survived earthquakes that brought down the colonial buildings placed on top of them.