| 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 |
Salvador, Brazil runs on UTC−3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Salvador 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 Salvador lines up with 09:00–17:00 in New York. The time difference between Salvador 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 Salvador lines up with 13:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Salvador 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 Salvador.
Salvador (Brazil) is home to roughly 3.9M people. Today brings about 12.2 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:18, sunset at 17:30. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 13° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Brazil
Capital
Brasília
Continent
South America
Time Zone
UTC−3 · America/Bahia
Coordinates
12.97°S, 38.51°W
Currency
BRL (R$)
Calling Code
+55
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Portuguese
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Salvador was the capital of Portuguese Brazil from 1549 to 1763 and one of the largest ports of the Atlantic slave trade in the Americas. Its Afro-Brazilian culture — capoeira, candomblé, the food — descends directly from that history.
The clock: Salvador keeps UTC−3. Its carnival runs on moving sound trucks, the trios elétricos, and by some counts draws larger street crowds than Rio's.
Salvador lies at 38.5°W. Its time zone, UTC−3, is built around the 45°W meridian. The 6.5° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 26 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:34 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 12h 53m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 11h 22m. The swing between them is 1h 32m. 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 Salvador the sun comes up earliest on 20 November at 04:58, while the latest sunset waits until 25 January at 18:08. 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 Salvador 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 Salvador, Brazil is America/Bahia with a current UTC offset of UTC−3.
Salvador has an estimated population of 3.9M and is located at coordinates 12.97°S, 38.51°W.
Salvador gets 12h 53m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 22m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Salvador falls at about 11:34 on UTC−3 standard time, because the city sits 6.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Brazil's First Capital: Salvador was the capital of Portuguese Brazil from 1549 to 1763 and one of the largest ports of the Atlantic slave trade in the Americas.