| 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 |
Fort-de-France, Martinique runs on UTC−4. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−4 — daylight saving time is not observed. Fort-de-France 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 Fort-de-France lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Fort-de-France 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 Fort-de-France lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Fort-de-France 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 Fort-de-France.
Fort-de-France (Martinique) is home to roughly 80K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:53, sunset at 17:54. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−4 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 15° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Martinique
Capital
Fort-de-France 👑
Continent
North America
Time Zone
AST · America/Martinique
Coordinates
14.60°N, 61.07°W
Currency
EUR (€)
Calling Code
+596
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
French
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Mount Pelée erupted on 8 May 1902 and destroyed Saint-Pierre, then Martinique's largest city, killing around 30,000 people in a few minutes. There were a handful of survivors, one of them a prisoner in an underground cell.
The clock: Fort-de-France keeps UTC−4, five hours behind Paris (which governs it) in winter and six in summer.
Fort-de-France lies at 61.1°W. Its time zone, UTC−4, is built around the 60°W meridian. The two very nearly coincide: solar noon — the moment the sun is highest — falls at about 12:04, which is as close to true solar time as a zone this wide can get. The zone holds UTC−4 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 12h 59m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 16m. The swing between them is 1h 44m. 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 Fort-de-France the sun comes up earliest on 3 June at 05:34, while the latest sunset waits until 10 July at 18:38. 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 Fort-de-France 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 Fort-de-France, Martinique is America/Martinique with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Fort-de-France has an estimated population of 80K and is located at coordinates 14.60°N, 61.07°W. It is the capital city of Martinique.
Fort-de-France gets 12h 59m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 16m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Fort-de-France falls at about 12:04 on UTC−4 standard time, because the city sits 1.1° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Volcano That Killed a City in Minutes: Mount Pelée erupted on 8 May 1902 and destroyed Saint-Pierre, then Martinique's largest city, killing around 30,000 people in a few minutes.