| 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 | Becomes +9h on 1 Nov |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +13h | Becomes +14h on 1 Nov |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +14h | Becomes +15h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | ±0h | |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −3h | Becomes −2h on 31 Oct |
Nassau, Bahamas runs on UTC−4. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−5 in winter, UTC−4 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. Nassau 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 Nassau lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Nassau 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 Nassau lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Nassau 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 Toronto, Havana, Washington DC. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Nassau.
Nassau (Bahamas) is home to roughly 280K people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:01, sunset at 18:57. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−5 in winter, UTC−4 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 25° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Bahamas
Capital
Nassau 👑
Continent
North America
Time Zone
EDT · America/Nassau
Coordinates
25.05°N, 77.34°W
Currency
BSD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Bahamas comprises roughly 700 islands and 2,400 cays, of which about 30 are inhabited. Nassau, on New Providence, holds nearly 75% of the national population on about 1.5% of the land.
The clock: the Bahamas keeps UTC−5 and follows US daylight saving dates, which keeps Nassau on the same hour as Miami year-round.
Nassau lies at 77.3°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The 2.3° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 9 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:09 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 69 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:09.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 13h 42m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 35m. The swing between them is 3h 7m. At this latitude the seasons are visible in the clock, but never dramatic.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Nassau the sun comes up earliest on 1 November at 06:16, while the latest sunset waits until 4 July at 20:03. 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 Nassau that civil twilight runs about 23 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 Nassau, Bahamas is America/Nassau with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Nassau has an estimated population of 280K and is located at coordinates 25.05°N, 77.34°W. It is the capital city of Bahamas.
Nassau gets 13h 42m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 35m on its shortest, averaging 12h 9m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Nassau falls at about 12:09 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 2.3° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Seven Hundred Islands, Thirty Inhabited: The Bahamas comprises roughly 700 islands and 2,400 cays, of which about 30 are inhabited. Nassau, on New Providence, holds nearly 75% of the national population on about 1.5% of the land.