| 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 |
Punta Arenas, Chile runs on UTC−3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Punta Arenas 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 Punta Arenas lines up with 09:00–17:00 in New York. The time difference between Punta Arenas 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 Punta Arenas lines up with 13:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Punta Arenas 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 Punta Arenas.
Punta Arenas (Chile) is home to roughly 130K people. Today brings about 12.7 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:12, sunset at 19:54. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 53° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Chile
Capital
Santiago
Continent
South America
Time Zone
UTC−3 · America/Punta_Arenas
Coordinates
53.16°S, 70.91°W
Currency
CLP ($)
Calling Code
+56
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Punta Arenas boomed as the coaling and supply stop for every ship rounding South America — until the Panama Canal opened in 1914 and the traffic vanished almost overnight.
The clock: the Magallanes region keeps UTC−3 year-round, an hour ahead of most of Chile in winter. Until Aysén followed in 2025, it was the only part of the country that did not change its clocks.
Punta Arenas lies at 70.9°W. Its time zone, UTC−3, is built around the 45°W meridian. The 25.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 104 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 13:44 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC−3 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 16h 58m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 7h 32m. The swing between them is 9h 26m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Punta Arenas the sun comes up earliest on 15 December at 05:12, while the latest sunset waits until 30 December at 22:13. 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 Punta Arenas that civil twilight runs about 35 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 52 minutes at the solstice.
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 Punta Arenas, Chile is America/Punta_Arenas with a current UTC offset of UTC−3.
Punta Arenas has an estimated population of 130K and is located at coordinates 53.16°S, 70.91°W.
Punta Arenas gets 16h 58m of daylight on its longest day and 7h 32m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Punta Arenas falls at about 13:44 on UTC−3 standard time, because the city sits 25.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City That Lost Its Reason to Exist: Punta Arenas boomed as the coaling and supply stop for every ship rounding South America — until the Panama Canal opened in 1914 and the traffic vanished almost overnight.