| 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 |
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia runs on UTC−4. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−4 — daylight saving time is not observed. Santa Cruz de la Sierra 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 Santa Cruz de la Sierra lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Santa Cruz de la Sierra 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 Santa Cruz de la Sierra lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Santa Cruz de la Sierra 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 Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) is home to roughly 1.9M people. Today brings about 12.2 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:55, sunset at 18:09. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−4 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 18° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Bolivia
Capital
Sucre
Continent
South America
Time Zone
UTC−4 · America/La_Paz
Coordinates
17.78°S, 63.18°W
Currency
BOB (Bs.)
Calling Code
+591
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Santa Cruz has grown from around 40,000 people in 1950 to over 1.7 million, overtaking La Paz to become Bolivia's largest city and generating the largest share of national output.
The clock: Bolivia keeps UTC−4 with no daylight saving. Santa Cruz sits in the eastern lowlands at about 400 metres, more than 3,000 metres below La Paz, the seat of government.
Santa Cruz de la Sierra lies at 63.2°W. Its time zone, UTC−4, is built around the 60°W meridian. The 3.2° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 13 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:13 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC−4 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 13h 12m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 11h 4m. The swing between them is 2h 8m. 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 Santa Cruz de la Sierra the sun comes up earliest on 25 November at 05:29, while the latest sunset waits until 20 January at 18:54. 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 Santa Cruz de la Sierra 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 Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia is America/La_Paz with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Santa Cruz de la Sierra has an estimated population of 1.9M and is located at coordinates 17.78°S, 63.18°W.
Santa Cruz de la Sierra gets 13h 12m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 4m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Santa Cruz de la Sierra falls at about 12:13 on UTC−4 standard time, because the city sits 3.2° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Bolivia's Economic Centre, Not Its Capital: Santa Cruz has grown from around 40,000 people in 1950 to over 1.7 million, overtaking La Paz to become Bolivia's largest city and generating the largest share of national output.