| 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 |
Philipsburg, Sint Maarten runs on UTC−4. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−4 — daylight saving time is not observed. Philipsburg 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 Philipsburg lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Philipsburg 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 Philipsburg lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Philipsburg 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 Philipsburg.
Philipsburg (Sint Maarten) is home to roughly 2K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:02, sunset at 18:02. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−4 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 18° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Sint Maarten
Capital
Philipsburg 👑
Continent
North America
Time Zone
AST · America/Lower_Princes
Coordinates
18.03°N, 63.05°W
Currency
XCG (Cg)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Dutch, English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Saint Martin has been divided between France and the Netherlands since 1648, across about 87 square kilometres — the smallest inhabited island in the world shared by two sovereign states. The border is unmarked and uncontrolled.
The clock: both halves keep UTC−4, though the Dutch side's official currency is the Caribbean guilder (though US dollars are used everywhere) and the French side uses the euro.
Philipsburg lies at 63.0°W. Its time zone, UTC−4, is built around the 60°W meridian. The 3.0° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 12 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:12 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 13h 13m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 3m. The swing between them is 2h 10m. 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 Philipsburg the sun comes up earliest on 6 June at 05:35, while the latest sunset waits until 8 July at 18:52. 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 Philipsburg that civil twilight runs about 22 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 Philipsburg, Sint Maarten is America/Lower_Princes with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Philipsburg has an estimated population of 2K and is located at coordinates 18.03°N, 63.05°W. It is the capital city of Sint Maarten.
Philipsburg gets 13h 13m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 3m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Philipsburg falls at about 12:12 on UTC−4 standard time, because the city sits 3.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
An Island Split Between Two Countries: Saint Martin has been divided between France and the Netherlands since 1648, across about 87 square kilometres — the smallest inhabited island in the world shared by two sovereign states.