Colombia · COT
Mon, 14 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Pereira, Colombia runs on UTC−5. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−5 — daylight saving time is not observed. There is a 1-hour difference between Pereira and New York. 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 Pereira lines up with 10:00–18:00 in New York. There is a 6-hour difference between Pereira and London. 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 Pereira lines up with 15:00–18:00 in London. There is a 14-hour difference between Pereira and Tokyo. 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 Chicago, Bogotá, Lima. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Pereira.
Practical Info
Pereira (Colombia) is home to roughly 480K people. Today brings about 12.4 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:54, sunset at 18:18. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−5 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 5° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Colombia
Capital
Bogotá
Continent
South America
Time Zone
COT · America/Bogota
Coordinates
4.81°N, 75.69°W
Currency
COP ($)
Calling Code
+57
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Coffee Cultural Landscape around Pereira was listed by UNESCO in 2011 — not for a monument but for the whole pattern of smallholder coffee farming on steep Andean slopes, worked by hand because machines cannot climb them.
The clock: Pereira keeps UTC−5. Colombia's coffee is picked selectively, bean by bean, which is why harvests run for months rather than weeks.
Annual Daylight
Working Hours
1h overlap