| 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 | Becomes +9h on 1 Nov |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +13h | Becomes +14h on 1 Nov |
| 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 −2h on 31 Oct |
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba runs on UTC−4. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−5 in winter, UTC−4 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. Santiago de Cuba 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 Santiago de Cuba lines up with 09:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Santiago de Cuba 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 Santiago de Cuba lines up with 14:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Santiago de Cuba 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 Toronto, Havana, Washington DC. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Santiago de Cuba.
Santiago de Cuba (Cuba) is home to roughly 510K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:53, sunset at 18:52. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−5 in winter, UTC−4 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 20° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Cuba
Capital
Havana
Continent
North America
Time Zone
UTC−4 · America/Havana
Coordinates
20.02°N, 75.83°W
Currency
CUP ($)
Calling Code
+53
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Son cubano — the root of salsa — developed in the hills around Santiago in the late 19th century, and the city also gave rise to trova and bolero. It is often called the cradle of Cuban music.
The clock: Santiago keeps UTC−5 and observes daylight saving. It was Cuba's capital for much of the 16th century and is the country's second city.
Santiago de Cuba lies at 75.8°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The two very nearly coincide: solar noon — the moment the sun is highest — falls at about 12:03, which is as close to true solar time as a zone this wide can get. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 63 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:03.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 13h 21m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 55m. The swing between them is 2h 25m. 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 Santiago de Cuba the sun comes up earliest on 1 November at 06:04, while the latest sunset waits until 7 July at 19:47. 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 Santiago de Cuba 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 Santiago de Cuba, Cuba is America/Havana with a current UTC offset of UTC−4.
Santiago de Cuba has an estimated population of 510K and is located at coordinates 20.02°N, 75.83°W.
Santiago de Cuba gets 13h 21m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 55m on its shortest, averaging 12h 9m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Santiago de Cuba falls at about 12:03 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 0.8° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Where Cuban Music Came From: Son cubano — the root of salsa — developed in the hills around Santiago in the late 19th century, and the city also gave rise to trova and bolero. It is often called the cradle of Cuban music.