Time in Jamaica, United States

Time zone: EDT (UTC/GMT -04:00) — America/New_York

Jamaica runs on EDT. That places it 4 hours behind UTC (UTC-04:00); in a calendar, server config or booking form, select America/New_York.

This zone does shift. On Sunday, 01 November 2026 the clocks go back 1 hour and Jamaica moves to EST, so anything booked across that date needs checking.

Across United States there are 10 distinct time zones among these 419 cities, so "local time" there depends entirely on which city you mean.

Jamaica has roughly 216,866 residents and ranks 66th by population among the United States cities on this site.

How Jamaica lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.

Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Jamaica time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.

No shared working window exists with Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai or Tokyo, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.

Same zone, same time — each of these sits on America/New_York alongside Jamaica, including through any clock change.

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