| 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 |
Iquitos, 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 Iquitos 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 Iquitos lines up with 10:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Iquitos 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 Iquitos lines up with 15:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Iquitos 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 Iquitos.
Iquitos (Peru) is home to roughly 480K people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:38, sunset at 17:47. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−5 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 4° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Peru
Capital
Lima
Continent
South America
Time Zone
UTC−5 · America/Lima
Coordinates
3.75°S, 73.25°W
Currency
PEN (S/)
Calling Code
+51
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Iquitos has around half a million people and no road connecting it to the outside world — the largest such city on Earth. Everything arrives by river or air. It grew rich on the rubber boom and has the mansions to prove it.
The clock: Iquitos keeps UTC−5. Its Belén district floats, with houses built on rafts that rise and fall several metres with the river.
Iquitos lies at 73.3°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The 1.8° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 7 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:53 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 20m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 11h 54m. The swing between them is 26 minutes. 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 Iquitos the sun comes up earliest on 8 November at 05:29, while the latest sunset waits until 7 February at 18:15. 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 Iquitos 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 Iquitos, Peru is America/Lima with a current UTC offset of UTC−5.
Iquitos has an estimated population of 480K and is located at coordinates 3.75°S, 73.25°W.
Iquitos gets 12h 20m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 54m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Iquitos falls at about 11:53 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 1.8° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Largest City You Cannot Drive To: Iquitos has around half a million people and no road connecting it to the outside world — the largest such city on Earth. Everything arrives by river or air.