Time in Lima now:
Timezone
Atomic clock accuracy
Difference from your location
Lima is the same time as you
Sun
Moon
Geography
Time difference from Lima
| City | Local time | Difference |
|---|
Working hours overlap
9–17 in Lima vs UTC
Time converter
Type 9am, 21:00, noon, 9am tomorrow, or in 3 hours.
Next 14 days
Upcoming public holidays
- San Pedro y San Pablo29 Jun 2026
- Día de la Independencia28 Jul 2026
- Día de la Independencia29 Jul 2026
- Día de Santa Rosa de Lima30 Aug 2026
- Combate de Angamos8 Oct 2026
Weather
Cities sharing this timezone
Climate & seasons
About Lima
Home to roughly 9,674,755 residents, Lima is a populous capital of commerce in Peru. The city sits at 154 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
Lima keeps time on the America/Lima IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. Sun behaviour here follows the tropical pattern of the southern hemisphere, with the steepest seasonal day-length swings around the equinoxes.
Peru's currency is PEN and its calling prefix is +51. This page exposes Lima's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
Nearest major cities
Cities in the same timezone
— (none in dataset)
More cities in Peru
— (no other bundled cities in Peru)
Questions about time in Lima
The current local time in Lima, Peru is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Lima uses the IANA time zone America/Lima, currently UTC−5.
Whether Lima observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (America/Lima) is the source of truth.
Lima is currently 1 hour behind New York.
Lima is currently 6 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Lima are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (-12.0464, -77.0428).
Peru uses the PEN currency and the +51 international dialing code.
Lima sits at -12.0464° S, 77.0428° W, 154 m above sea level, in Peru.