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9–17 in Panama City vs UTC
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About Panama City
Home to roughly 880,691 residents, Panama City is a notable city in Panama. The city sits at 2 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
Panama City keeps time on the America/Panama IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. Sun behaviour here follows the equatorial pattern of the northern hemisphere, with the steepest seasonal day-length swings around the equinoxes.
This page exposes Panama City'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.
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Questions about time in Panama City
The current local time in Panama City, Panama is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Panama City uses the IANA time zone America/Panama, currently UTC−5.
Whether Panama City observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (America/Panama) is the source of truth.
Panama City is currently 1 hour behind New York.
Panama City is currently 6 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Panama City are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (8.9824, -79.5199).
Currency and dialing-code information is not available for this entry.
Panama City sits at 8.9824° N, 79.5199° W, 2 m above sea level, in Panama.