| 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 |
Paramaribo, Suriname runs on UTC−3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Paramaribo 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 Paramaribo lines up with 09:00–17:00 in New York. The time difference between Paramaribo 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 Paramaribo lines up with 13:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Paramaribo 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 Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Paramaribo.
Paramaribo (Suriname) is home to roughly 240K people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:28, sunset at 18:33. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 6° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
Suriname
Capital
Paramaribo 👑
Continent
South America
Time Zone
UTC−3 · America/Paramaribo
Coordinates
5.85°N, 55.20°W
Currency
SRD ($)
Calling Code
+597
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Dutch
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Paramaribo's historic centre is built almost entirely in white-painted timber, a Dutch colonial style adapted to the tropics, and was listed by UNESCO in 2002. A mosque and a synagogue stand next door to each other and share a car park.
The clock: Paramaribo keeps UTC−3. Suriname has one of the highest proportions of rainforest cover of any country, at over 90%.
Paramaribo lies at 55.2°W. Its time zone, UTC−3, is built around the 45°W meridian. The 10.2° 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. The zone holds UTC−3 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 12h 28m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 47m. The swing between them is 41 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 Paramaribo the sun comes up earliest on 25 May at 06:25, while the latest sunset waits until 19 July at 19:00. 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 Paramaribo 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 Paramaribo, Suriname is America/Paramaribo with a current UTC offset of UTC−3.
Paramaribo has an estimated population of 240K and is located at coordinates 5.85°N, 55.20°W. It is the capital city of Suriname.
Paramaribo gets 12h 28m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 47m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Paramaribo falls at about 12:41 on UTC−3 standard time, because the city sits 10.2° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Wooden City on the UNESCO List: Paramaribo's historic centre is built almost entirely in white-painted timber, a Dutch colonial style adapted to the tropics, and was listed by UNESCO in 2002.