| 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 |
Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines runs on UTC−4. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−4 — daylight saving time is not observed. Kingstown 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 Kingstown lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Kingstown 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 Kingstown lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Kingstown 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 Kingstown.
Kingstown (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) is home to roughly 16K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:54, sunset at 17:55. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−4 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 13° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Capital
Kingstown 👑
Continent
North America
Time Zone
AST · America/St_Vincent
Coordinates
13.16°N, 61.22°W
Currency
XCD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
St Vincent's botanical garden was founded in 1765 and is the oldest in the western hemisphere. A breadfruit tree there is said to descend from the plants Captain Bligh finally delivered in 1793, on his second attempt after the Bounty mutiny.
The clock: Kingstown keeps UTC−4. La Soufrière erupted explosively in 2021, covering much of the island in ash.
Kingstown lies at 61.2°W. Its time zone, UTC−4, is built around the 60°W meridian. The 1.2° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 5 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:05 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC−4 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 12h 54m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 21m. The swing between them is 1h 33m. 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 Kingstown the sun comes up earliest on 2 June at 05:37, while the latest sunset waits until 11 July at 18:36. 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 Kingstown 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 Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is America/St_Vincent with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Kingstown has an estimated population of 16K and is located at coordinates 13.16°N, 61.22°W. It is the capital city of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Kingstown gets 12h 54m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 21m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Kingstown falls at about 12:05 on UTC−4 standard time, because the city sits 1.2° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Oldest Botanical Garden in the Americas: St Vincent's botanical garden was founded in 1765 and is the oldest in the western hemisphere.