| 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 |
Maracaibo, Venezuela runs on UTC−4. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−4 — daylight saving time is not observed. Maracaibo 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 Maracaibo lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Maracaibo 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 Maracaibo lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Maracaibo 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 Maracaibo.
Maracaibo (Venezuela) is home to roughly 2.2M people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:35, sunset at 18:37. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−4 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 11° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Venezuela
Capital
Caracas
Continent
South America
Time Zone
UTC−4 · America/Caracas
Coordinates
10.64°N, 71.64°W
Currency
VES (Bs.)
Calling Code
+58
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Catatumbo lightning, where the river meets Lake Maracaibo, occurs on roughly 140 to 160 nights a year (some sources say up to 260) for up to ten hours at a time — the highest lightning density anywhere on Earth. Sailors used it for navigation.
The clock: Venezuela used UTC−4:30 from 2007 to 2016, a half-hour offset adopted for more morning daylight and dropped to save electricity. Maracaibo now keeps UTC−4.
Maracaibo lies at 71.6°W. Its time zone, UTC−4, is built around the 60°W meridian. The 11.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 47 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:47 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 45m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 30m. The swing between them is 1h 15m. 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 Maracaibo the sun comes up earliest on 30 May at 06:23, while the latest sunset waits until 14 July at 19:13. 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 Maracaibo 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 Maracaibo, Venezuela is America/Caracas with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Maracaibo has an estimated population of 2.2M and is located at coordinates 10.64°N, 71.64°W.
Maracaibo gets 12h 45m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 30m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Maracaibo falls at about 12:47 on UTC−4 standard time, because the city sits 11.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Lightning That Strikes 150 Nights a Year: Catatumbo lightning, where the river meets Lake Maracaibo, occurs on roughly 140 to 160 nights a year (some sources say up to 260) for up to ten hours at a time — the highest lightning density anywhere on Earth.