| 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 |
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic runs on UTC−4. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−4 — daylight saving time is not observed. Punta Cana 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 Punta Cana lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Punta Cana 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 Punta Cana lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Punta Cana 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 Punta Cana.
Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) is home to roughly 50K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:23, sunset at 18:23. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−4 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 19° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Dominican Republic
Capital
Santo Domingo
Continent
North America
Time Zone
AST · America/Santo_Domingo
Coordinates
18.58°N, 68.40°W
Currency
DOP (RD$)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Punta Cana's airport opened in 1984 as the first privately owned international airport in the world, built by the resort developers because no road served the area. It is now one of the busiest airports in the Caribbean.
The clock: Punta Cana keeps UTC−4 year-round. In 2000 the Dominican Republic briefly switched to US Eastern time, planning to follow US daylight saving, and switched back five weeks later.
Punta Cana lies at 68.4°W. Its time zone, UTC−4, is built around the 60°W meridian. The 8.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 34 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:34 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 15m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 1m. The swing between them is 2h 14m. 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 Punta Cana the sun comes up earliest on 6 June at 05:56, while the latest sunset waits until 8 July at 19:14. 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 Cana 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 Punta Cana, Dominican Republic is America/Santo_Domingo with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Punta Cana has an estimated population of 50K and is located at coordinates 18.58°N, 68.40°W.
Punta Cana gets 13h 15m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 1m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Punta Cana falls at about 12:34 on UTC−4 standard time, because the city sits 8.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
An Airport Built by a Resort: Punta Cana's airport opened in 1984 as the first privately owned international airport in the world, built by the resort developers because no road served the area. It is now one of the busiest airports in the Caribbean.