Kingston, Jamaica
Current time in Jamaica
Time zone: EST (UTC/GMT -05:00) — America/Jamaica
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -5 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT -05:00) America/Jamaica |
Current Time in other Cities of Jamaica
Time zone in Kingston
Local time here is EST, which sits 5 hours behind UTC, written UTC-05:00. The canonical zone name is America/Jamaica, and that is what to pick from a time zone dropdown.
There is no daylight saving in Kingston. UTC-05:00 applies all year, so the offset never moves on this side — only the other party's clock changes.
Kingston compared with major world cities
Read this as: relative to each city below, Kingston is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Kingston is 1 hour behind |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Kingston is 2 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Kingston is 6 hours behind |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Kingston is 7 hours behind |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Kingston is 9 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Kingston is 10 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Kingston is 13 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Kingston is 14 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Kingston is 15 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Kingston is 2 hours behind |
Working hours that match Kingston
Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Kingston local time.
| New York | 09:00–16:00 in Kingston | 7 hours overlap |
| Los Angeles | 11:00–17:00 in Kingston | 6 hours overlap |
| Sao Paulo | 09:00–15:00 in Kingston | 6 hours overlap |
| London | 09:00–11:00 in Kingston | 2 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai or Tokyo, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
Same local time as Kingston
These Jamaica cities also use America/Jamaica, so their clocks read identically to Kingston at every moment of the year.
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