Honduras · CST
Mon, 14 Sept 2026
Timezone Guide
Tegucigalpa, Honduras runs on UTC−6. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−6 — daylight saving time is not observed. There is a 2-hour difference between Tegucigalpa and New York. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 7 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–16:00 in Tegucigalpa lines up with 11:00–18:00 in New York. There is a 7-hour difference between Tegucigalpa and London. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–11:00 in Tegucigalpa lines up with 16:00–18:00 in London. There is a 15-hour difference between Tegucigalpa and Tokyo. 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 Mexico City, Denver, Calgary. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Tegucigalpa.
Practical Info
Tegucigalpa (Honduras) is home to roughly 1.4M people. Today brings about 13.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:24, sunset at 18:24. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−6 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 14° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
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Honduras
Capital
Tegucigalpa 👑
Continent
North America
Time Zone
CST · America/Tegucigalpa
Coordinates
14.07°N, 87.19°W
Currency
HNL (L)
Calling Code
+504
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Tegucigalpa is one of the few national capitals in the Americas never connected to a railway. The terrain around it — a bowl of steep hills at about 990 metres — made the engineering economics impossible.
The clock: Honduras keeps UTC−6 with no daylight saving. It tried DST briefly in 2006 and abandoned it within weeks.
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