Time in Lima Now — Current Local Time. Lima is on UTC−05:00 right now — Lima stays on UTC−05:00 all year — it does not observe daylight saving, so its offset from UTC never changes. The current local time, date and daylight saving status are shown live by the world clock, which is worked out from the IANA time zone database (America/Lima), not from a printed table.
Try the tool: World Clock — see the current time in Lima and 99 other cities, side by side, with each city's UTC offset.
What time is it in Lima now?
The world clock shows the current time in Lima live — the time, the date and the day of the week — updated every second from your device's clock and the IANA time zone database. It is the time in the America/Lima zone, which covers Lima and the surrounding region. The clock does not use a fixed offset: it asks the database what the offset is on today's date, so it is right whether daylight saving is in effect or not. That matters more than it sounds, because Lima's offset never changes, which is one reason the time in Lima is easy to remember.
If you need the time in Lima for a meeting or a flight, use the live clock rather than a remembered offset. The remembered offset is right most of the year and wrong for a few weeks — the weeks when Lima is on the same time it is always on, while the place you are calling from has just changed its clocks. The time zone converter handles the date as well as the cities, so it is right on the awkward dates too.
Lima's UTC offset
Lima stays on UTC−05:00 all year — it does not observe daylight saving, so its offset from UTC never changes.
| Period | Offset | In effect |
|---|---|---|
| All year | UTC−05:00 | The offset never changes |
| Right now (11 November 2026) | UTC−05:00 | The offset never changes |
The offset is the whole story for conversions. To get the time in Lima from UTC, add the offset: when it is 12:00 UTC, it is 07:00 in Lima in January and 07:00 in July. To go the other way, subtract it. The UTC converter does the arithmetic for any hour, and the UTC to Lima page has the full 24-hour conversion table for this city.
Daylight saving in Lima
Lima does not observe daylight saving time, and its offset never changes. Peru sits close to the equator, where day length barely changes through the year, so daylight saving has never been adopted. That makes Lima one of the easiest cities in the world to schedule with: the time difference between Lima and anywhere else only changes when the other place changes its clocks. The Lima DST 2026 page explains the history, and the daylight saving checker confirms the status for any zone.
Lima working hours in other cities
The table below converts Lima's working day — 09:00 to 17:00 local time — into the time in four reference points: UTC, New York, London and Tokyo. It is the table to use when you are working out whether someone in Lima is at their desk.
January (northern winter) — when it is the time in the first column in Lima, it is the time shown in each other city.
| Time in Lima | UTC | New York | London | Tokyo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | 14:00 | 09:00 | 14:00 | 23:00 |
| 12:00 | 17:00 | 12:00 | 17:00 | 02:00 |
| 15:00 | 20:00 | 15:00 | 20:00 | 05:00 |
| 17:00 | 22:00 | 17:00 | 22:00 | 07:00 |
July (northern summer) — when it is the time in the first column in Lima, it is the time shown in each other city.
| Time in Lima | UTC | New York | London | Tokyo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | 14:00 | 10:00 | 15:00 | 23:00 |
| 12:00 | 17:00 | 13:00 | 18:00 | 02:00 |
| 15:00 | 20:00 | 16:00 | 21:00 | 05:00 |
| 17:00 | 22:00 | 18:00 | 23:00 | 07:00 |
Read the table from left to right: find the time in Lima, then read across to see what time it is in each other city. If the January and July tables differ, the difference is daylight saving — one or more of the cities has changed its clocks between the two dates. The meeting planner does the same conversion for any two cities and any date, and the meeting time finder finds the hours when everyone is available.
Best time to call Lima
The best windows to call Lima — the hours when Lima is in its working day and New York, London and Tokyo are most likely to be awake — are 07:00–22:00 Lima time (January, when the offsets are as shown in the table above). These are the hours when at least two of the three hubs are between 07:00 and 22:00 local time, so the call is inside the working day in Lima and at a reasonable hour for the other side. Outside these windows, the call is either before the working day in Lima or in the middle of the night somewhere else.
As a rule of thumb, the kindest time to call Lima from the United States is late morning in New York, which is the afternoon or evening in Lima for most of the world east of the Atlantic — and the kindest time from Europe is mid-morning in London, which is late morning or afternoon in Lima for most of Asia. The worst time to call is the hour that is 03:00 somewhere: check the tables above before you dial.
About Lima and its time zone
Lima is on Peru Time, UTC−05:00, all year. Peru sits close to the equator, so day length barely changes through the year, and daylight saving has never been adopted.
Lima is in the Americas region, and its IANA time zone is America/Lima. That name is the identifier computers use: when your phone, your calendar or this website works out the time in Lima, it looks up America/Lima in the IANA Time Zone Database and applies the rules for that zone on the date you asked about. The rules include the standard offset, the daylight saving dates and the whole history of changes — which is why the answer is right even for dates in the past, when the rules were different.
The practical consequence is that the time in Lima is not a fixed number. It is a single number, all year, which is the simplest case in time-zone work. The time in Lima is UTC−05:00 on every day of the year, and the only thing that changes is the time in the place you are calling from. The time zone list shows every zone in the database with its current offset, and the guides explain how the system works.
Lima compared with the world's major cities
When it is 12:00 in Lima, it is:
| City | January | July |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 12:00 | 13:00 |
| London | 17:00 | 18:00 |
| Paris | 18:00 | 19:00 |
| Dubai | 21:00 | 21:00 |
| Mumbai | 22:30 | 22:30 |
| Singapore | 01:00 | 01:00 |
| Tokyo | 02:00 | 02:00 |
| Sydney | 04:00 | 03:00 |
The January and July columns differ wherever one of the cities observes daylight saving and the other does not, or where they change their clocks on different dates. And to find a meeting time that works, see best time for a meeting between Boston and Lima, best time for a meeting between Lima and Boston.
How to convert Lima time
Three worked examples, all for January, when Lima is on UTC−05:00: 09:00 in Lima is 14:00 UTC, 14:00 in London and 09:00 in New York. 12:00 in Lima is 17:00 UTC and 02:00 in Tokyo. 17:00 in Lima — the end of the working day — is 22:00 UTC and 17:00 in New York. In July, when Lima is on UTC−05:00, add or subtract the difference between the two offsets — there is none, because the offset does not change — from each of those answers.
Frequently asked questions
What time is it in Lima right now?
The world clock shows the current time in Lima live, with the date and the day of the week. It is worked out from the IANA time zone database (America/Lima), so it is right whether daylight saving is in effect or not.
What is Lima's UTC offset?
Lima is on UTC−05:00 in standard time, all year. Right now (11 November 2026) it is on UTC−05:00.
Does Lima observe daylight saving time?
No. Lima does not observe daylight saving, so its offset of UTC−05:00 never changes. See the Lima DST 2026 page for the full explanation.
What is the time difference between Lima and London?
In January, Lima is 5 hours behind London; in July it is 6 hours behind London. The difference changes with daylight saving.
What is the time difference between Lima and New York?
In January, Lima is the same time New York; in July it is 1 hour behind New York. See the time difference pages for the full comparison.
What time zone is Lima in?
Lima is in the IANA time zone America/Lima, in Peru. The zone's standard offset is UTC−05:00, and it does not observe daylight saving.
Sources
- IANA Time Zone Database, via Node.js Intl (
Intl.DateTimeFormatwithtimeZone) — offsets, daylight saving dates and local times in this article were worked out from the IANA database, not typed from memory. - TimeFlow's own time-zone data (
data/cities.ts,data/dst.ts), computed from the IANA database. - TimeFlow's world clock and time zone converter — the live tools behind the numbers on this page.
- Time-zone and daylight saving rules are set by governments and can change. For flights, deadlines and meetings that cannot move, confirm the time with an official source.