Current time in Kingston, Jamaica
Eastern Standard Time
UTC−05:00- Time zone
- Eastern Standard Time · America/Jamaica
- UTC offset now
- UTC−05:00
- Abbreviation
- EST
- Daylight saving
- Not observed: UTC−5 all year.
No clock changes are scheduled.
- Difference from you
- —
- Location
- Jamaica (capital) · 18.00° N, 76.79° W
- Population
- 937,700
Sun and clock
On average the sun stands highest over Kingston at about 12:07 standard time: the clock runs about 7 min ahead of the sun. Over the year, solar noon falls between 11:51 and 12:21 on the local clock.
| 2026 | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox (Mar 20) | 06:11 | 18:18 | 12h 07m |
| June solstice (Jun 21) | 05:32 | 18:45 | 13h 13m |
| September equinox (Sep 22) | 05:56 | 18:03 | 12h 07m |
| December solstice (Dec 21) | 06:33 | 17:36 | 11h 03m |
Sunrise–sunset today: 05:57–17:57 (12 h 0 min of daylight)
Times are local clock times for the city centre, computed with the NOAA solar equations; hills and refraction can shift them by a few minutes.
Nearby cities
- Port-au-Prince, Haiti · 470 km · clock 1 h ahead
- George Town, Cayman Islands · 500 km
- Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands · 630 km · clock 1 h ahead
- Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic · 660 km · clock 1 h ahead
- Cockburn Town, Turks and Caicos Islands · 710 km · clock 1 h ahead
- Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic · 730 km · clock 1 h ahead
Nearest cities abroad on the same clock all year
- George Town, Cayman Islands · 500 km
- Barranquilla, Colombia · 810 km
- Panama City, Panama · 1,040 km
- Cancún, Mexico · 1,110 km
- Medellín, Colombia · 1,310 km
- Bogotá, Colombia · 1,520 km