| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +4h | Becomes +3h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +5h | Becomes +4h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +7h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +12h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +13h | Becomes +14h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | −1h | Becomes −2h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −4h | Becomes −5h on 1 Nov |
Iquique, Chile runs on UTC−3. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−4 in winter, UTC−3 in summer. Next change: 3 Apr. The time difference between Iquique 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: 10:00–18:00 in Iquique lines up with 09:00–17:00 in New York. The time difference between Iquique and London is 4 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 5 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–14:00 in Iquique lines up with 13:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Iquique and Tokyo is 12 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 Santiago, Valparaíso, Concepción. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Iquique.
Iquique (Chile) is home to roughly 200K people. Today brings about 12.3 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:22, sunset at 19:38. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−4 in winter, UTC−3 in summer. Next change: 3 Apr. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 20° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Chile
Capital
Santiago
Continent
South America
Time Zone
UTC−3 · America/Santiago
Coordinates
20.21°S, 70.15°W
Currency
CLP ($)
Calling Code
+56
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Iquique grew rich on saltpetre and guano in the 19th century, exported as fertiliser and explosive. The invention of synthetic nitrogen in 1909 destroyed the industry by the 1930s, and the nitrate towns inland are now ghost towns on the UNESCO list.
The clock: Iquique keeps Chilean time. A 500-metre dune rises directly behind the city, used for paragliding year-round.
Iquique lies at 70.1°W. Its time zone, UTC−4, is built around the 60°W meridian. The 10.1° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 41 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:41 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 101 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:41.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 13h 21m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 10h 54m. The swing between them is 2h 27m. 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 Iquique the sun comes up earliest on 5 September at 06:47, while the latest sunset waits until 17 January at 20:26. 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 Iquique 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 Iquique, Chile is America/Santiago with a current UTC offset of UTC−3.
Iquique has an estimated population of 200K and is located at coordinates 20.21°S, 70.15°W.
Iquique gets 13h 21m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 54m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Iquique falls at about 12:41 on UTC−4 standard time, because the city sits 10.1° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Fortune Built on Bird Droppings: Iquique grew rich on saltpetre and guano in the 19th century, exported as fertiliser and explosive.