Timetate
A world clock on a live 3D globe, turned to Kingston.
Jamaica · GMT-5
Kingston runs on EST (GMT-5). Subtract 5 hours from Coordinated Universal Time to get the current time in Kingston.
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24h schedule
Sunrise
05:42
Sunset
18:02
Kingston is located in Jamaica and uses the America/Jamaica timezone, currently EST (GMT-5) from UTC. Kingston does not observe daylight saving time. Sunrise is at 05:42 and sunset at 18:02 local time. The coordinates of Kingston are 18.00°N, 76.79°W.
Today Kingston gets 12 hours 20 minutes of daylight. Solar noon — when the sun is highest — falls at 11:52, about 8 minutes before clock noon.
Right now Kingston shares its EST (GMT-5) offset with Chicago, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Minneapolis, Austin. Clocks in these places read the same, even where the calendar date differs.
Offices in Kingston work Monday to Friday, typically 08:30–17:00 local time. Lunch is usually 12:00–13:00, and a meeting proposed inside it will be moved. The city's economy runs on financial services, tourism, call centres and shipping, which is who you are most likely to be calling. The clock stays on Eastern Standard Time all year, so the gap to New York changes twice a year without Kingston moving.
The dates that most often break a cross-border schedule are Emancipation Day (1 August), Independence Day (6 August), National Heroes Day (third Monday of October) and Christmas and Boxing Day (25–26 December). Expect slow replies during the week between Christmas and New Year.
| From | Gap | Call at (Kingston time) |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 Baltimore | +1h | 09:00–16:00 |
| 🇵🇪 Lima | same time | 09:00–17:00 |
| 🇺🇸 Washington D.C. | +1h | 09:00–16:00 |
| 🇧🇸 Nassau | +1h | 09:00–16:00 |
| 🇬🇧 London | +5h | 09:00–12:00 |
| 🇺🇸 New York | +1h | 09:00–16:00 |
| 🇸🇬 Singapore | +13h | 19:00–19:00 (early or late for one side) |
| 🇦🇪 Dubai | +9h | 07:00–11:00 (early or late for one side) |
Office hours taken as 09:00–17:00 on both sides. A row opens the meeting page for the two cities where one exists, otherwise the converter.
Kingston is in the America/Jamaica timezone, currently EST (GMT-5).
No. Kingston does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset is always GMT-5.
Kingston is currently GMT-5 from UTC (EST (GMT-5)).
Right now Kingston is 5 hours behind London and 1 hour behind New York. The gaps move by an hour when either side changes its clocks.
09:00 in Kingston is 14:00 UTC today, because the city is GMT-5 from UTC.
Today the sun rises in Kingston at 05:42 and sets at 18:02 local time. These times were calculated when this page was built and drift by a few minutes a week.
Times on this page were calculated on .