| 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 |
Temuco, Chile runs on UTC−3. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−4 in winter, UTC−3 in summer. Next change: 3 Apr. The time difference between Temuco 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 Temuco lines up with 09:00–17:00 in New York. The time difference between Temuco 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 Temuco lines up with 13:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Temuco 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 Santiago, Valparaíso, Concepción. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Temuco.
Temuco (Chile) is home to roughly 290K people. Today brings about 12.4 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:26, sunset at 19:53. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−4 in winter, UTC−3 in summer. Next change: 3 Apr. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 39° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Chile
Capital
Santiago
Continent
South America
Time Zone
UTC−3 · America/Santiago
Coordinates
38.74°S, 72.60°W
Currency
CLP ($)
Calling Code
+56
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Mapuche resisted both the Inca and the Spanish, and were not brought under Chilean state control until the 1880s — one of the longest indigenous resistances in the Americas. Temuco is the centre of Mapuche population today.
The clock: Temuco keeps Chilean time. Pablo Neruda spent his childhood here and wrote about its rain at length.
Temuco lies at 72.6°W. Its time zone, UTC−4, is built around the 60°W meridian. The 12.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 50 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:50 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 110 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:50.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 14h 53m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 9h 27m. The swing between them is 5h 26m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Temuco the sun comes up earliest on 9 December at 06:19, while the latest sunset waits until 5 January at 21:18. 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 Temuco that civil twilight runs about 27 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 32 minutes at the solstice.
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 Temuco, Chile is America/Santiago with a current UTC offset of UTC−3.
Temuco has an estimated population of 290K and is located at coordinates 38.74°S, 72.60°W.
Temuco gets 14h 53m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 27m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Temuco falls at about 12:50 on UTC−4 standard time, because the city sits 12.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The Heart of Mapuche Country: The Mapuche resisted both the Inca and the Spanish, and were not brought under Chilean state control until the 1880s — one of the longest indigenous resistances in the Americas.