Indexed entity
Cuenca is the cuenca-EC record in Ecuador: country slug ecuador, city slug cuenca, ISO EC, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Guayaquil.
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Live local time
Cuenca, Ecuador
05:01:09 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · America/Guayaquil
Quick answer
It is currently 05:01:09 AM (ECT, UTC-05:00) in Cuenca, Ecuador — Early morning.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
12°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
20°C
12°C
82% rain
Wed
20°C
12°C
86% rain
Thu
19°C
12°C
96% rain
In 69 days
Primer Grito de Independencia (Declaration of Independence of Quito)
Mon, Aug 10, 2026
PublicIn 129 days
Independencia de Guayaquil (Independence of Guayaquil)
Fri, Oct 9, 2026
PublicIn 153 days
Día de los Difuntos, Día de Muertos (All Souls' Day)
Mon, Nov 2, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
United States Dollar
Quoted as the global reference currency.
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
06:15 AM
Sunset
06:12 PM
Day length
11h 58m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Cuenca, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:01 AM UTC.
Current local time
05:01:09 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
ECT
America/Guayaquil · UTC-05:00
Next holiday
Declaration of Independence of Quito
Monday, August 10, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Cuenca right now
Nearest airport
GYE
José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport · 128 km
Indexed airports
2
Curated airport references available for Ecuador
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Cuenca, Ecuador.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 05:01 GMT-5
No reference-city overlap right now
Cuenca is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC-05:00
Zone label
GMT-5
London
11:01 AM / +6h
New York
06:01 AM / +1h
Los Angeles
03:01 AM / -2h
Schedule risk
Declaration of Independence of Quito on Monday, August 10, 2026
Travel cue
GYE Guayaquil, 128 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:15 AM to 06:12 PM, with solar noon around 12:14 PM and total daylight of 11h 57m.
Mapped location
2.90°S, 79.00°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:01 AM / +6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:01 AM / +1h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:01 AM / -2h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:01 PM / +9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:01 PM / +13h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Cuenca.
GYE · José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport
Guayaquil
UIO · Mariscal Sucre International Airport
Quito
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use America/Guayaquil for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC-05:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC-05:00.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Cuenca right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
Declaration of Independence of Quito on Monday, August 10, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: GYE Guayaquil, 128 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for America/Guayaquil. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Cuenca has no near-term DST change in view, but Declaration of Independence of Quito can still affect office coverage and local response times.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Cuenca.
Canonical route
/time/ecuador/cuenca/
Catalog identity
cuenca-EC · EC · America
Coordinate cell
2.90°S, 79.00°W · lat -2.895 · lon -78.996 · cell -290:-7900
Population record
636,996 residents · country rank 3
Zone snapshot
America/Guayaquil · GMT-5 · UTC-05:00
January / July offsets
UTC-05:00 / UTC-05:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Guayaquil, Ecuador · 126 km
Nearest world hub
São Paulo · 4,168 km
Closest airport references
GYE Guayaquil 128 km · UIO Quito 316 km
Zone peer roster
Quito, Ecuador · Guayaquil, Ecuador · Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Ecuador
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Cuenca: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Cuenca is the cuenca-EC record in Ecuador: country slug ecuador, city slug cuenca, ISO EC, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Guayaquil.
2.90°S, 79.00°W; Southern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -3 and longitude band -79; exact decimal pair -2.89530, -78.99630.
Ecuador: official name Republic of Ecuador; capital Quito; region Americas; subregion South America; country population 18,103,660; area 276,841 km²; languages Spanish; currencies USD United States dollar. This is the country layer behind the Cuenca clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Ecuador: Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contains the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometers west of the mainland. The country's capital is Quito and its largest city is Guayaquil. Source: Wikipedia.
Guayaquil [guayaquil-EC, EC, America/Guayaquil, 126 km]; Santo Domingo de los Colorados [santo-domingo-de-los-colorados-EC, EC, America/Guayaquil, 294 km]; Quito [quito-EC, EC, America/Guayaquil, 301 km]; Trujillo [trujillo-PE, PE, America/Lima, 581 km]; Cali [cali-CO, CO, America/Bogota, 755 km]; Cruzeiro do Sul [cruzeiro-do-sul-BR, BR, America/Rio_Branco, 875 km]; Bogotá [bogota-CO, CO, America/Bogota, 997 km]; Callao [callao-PE, PE, America/Lima, 1039 km]
Cuenca is part of this indexed country cluster: Quito [quito-EC, America/Guayaquil, pop 2,781,641]; Guayaquil [guayaquil-EC, America/Guayaquil, pop 2,723,665]; Cuenca [cuenca-EC, America/Guayaquil, pop 636,996]; Santo Domingo de los Colorados [santo-domingo-de-los-colorados-EC, America/Guayaquil, pop 458,580]; Galapagos [galapagos-EC, Pacific/Galapagos].
São Paulo 4,168 km; New York 4,875 km; Los Angeles 5,807 km; London 9,494 km; Sydney 13,363 km; Dubai 14,534 km; Tokyo 14,626 km; Singapore 19,658 km
GYE José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport in Guayaquil [EC, 128 km]; UIO Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito [EC, 316 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include GYE José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport in Guayaquil [EC]; UIO Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito [EC].
Cuenca renders Jun 2, 2026 · 05:01 GMT-5; GMT-5 at UTC-05:00; January UTC-05:00; July UTC-05:00; next holiday Declaration of Independence of Quito on 2026-08-10.
This evidence pack is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Cuenca.
Cuenca is a context-and-reference city; rank #3 of 5 retained Ecuador city pages. The route is /time/ecuador/cuenca/ and the city id is cuenca-EC.
Cuenca has 15 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Cuenca is pinned at 2.90°S, 79.00°W; Guayaquil (126 km); São Paulo (4,168 km).
America/Guayaquil resolves to stable UTC-05:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Ecuador.
GYE José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport (128 km) · Declaration of Independence of Quito (Monday, August 10, 2026) · 2 country airport references · 11 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Cuenca uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Cuenca, Ecuador: Cuenca, officially Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca, is an Ecuadorian city, head of the canton of the same name and capital of the province of Azuay, as well as its largest and most populated city. It is crossed by the Tomebamba, Tarqui, Yanuncay and Machángara rivers, in the south-central inter-Andean region of Ecuador, in the Paute river basin, at an altitude of 2,538 meters above sea level and with a temperate Andean climate averaging 16.3 °C.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-05:00) is constant year-round.
Cuenca is listed in the dataset snapshot as 5 hours behind UTC (offset -05:00). 6 hours behind London, 14 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -79.00°, Cuenca's mean solar noon falls about 16 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Cuenca sits at 2.90°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Cuenca sits at 2.90°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jan 1 (12h 17m)
Shortest day
Jun 8 (11h 57m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 20m
See the full daylight curve for Cuenca at /sun/cuenca/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Cuenca local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Cuenca |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 00:00 - 08:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 22:30 - 06:30 (next day) |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 20:00 - 04:00 (next day) |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 20:00 - 04:00 (next day) |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 19:00 - 03:00 (next day) |
IANA time zones in country
2
Public holidays in 2026
11
Reference fields include Cuenca's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 05:01:09 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Cuenca (UTC-05:00, ECT).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:15 AM to 06:12 PM
Day length 11h 57m · Solar noon 12:14 PM
Next country holiday
Declaration of Independence of Quito
Monday, August 10, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Cuenca local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
637K
Coordinates
-2.90, -79.00
Timezone
America/Guayaquil
Indexed airports
2
Capital
Quito
Languages
Spanish
Currency
USD ($)
Country area
276,841 km²
Cuenca, Ecuador (population rank #3 in this dataset). Time zone: America/Guayaquil (ECT, UTC-05:00); population ~637K.
Coordinates: 2.90°S, 79.00°W. Equatorial Hemisphere deep tropics, ~321 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:15 AM and sets around 06:12 PM in Cuenca — about 11h 57m of daylight. Ecuador stays on standard time here, so UTC-05:00 is stable through the year.
Guayaquil (126 km from Cuenca) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 2 curated airport pages indexed for Ecuador.
Next national holiday: Declaration of Independence of Quito, 2026-08-10.
Cuenca is indexed as a America city in the EC country record, using America/Guayaquil as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/ecuador/cuenca/.
Location context: 2.90°S, 79.00°W; population 636,996; nearest indexed city Guayaquil is about 126 km away; closest reference hub is São Paulo, about 4,168 km away.
Country planning context: capital Quito; subregion South America; languages Spanish; currency USD ($); area 276,841 km²; 2 curated airport references; next holiday Declaration of Independence of Quito on 2026-08-10.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-05:00) is constant year-round.
Cuenca is listed in the dataset snapshot as 5 hours behind UTC (offset -05:00). 6 hours behind London, 14 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -79.00°, Cuenca's mean solar noon falls about 16 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Cuenca sits at 2.90°S, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Sizeable city with about 637 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Cuenca: Quito (same time), Sydney (+15h), Tokyo (+14h), Singapore (+13h), Mumbai (+10.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
ecuador
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
ECT
IANA Zone
America/Guayaquil
UTC Offset
UTC-05:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC-05:00
Brazil, United States, Mexico, Canada, Colombia, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Panama
Other cities in this timezone
London
+6h
New York
+1h
Los Angeles
-2h
Dubai
+9h
Singapore
+13h
Tokyo
+14h
Sydney
+15h
São Paulo
+2h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Cuenca.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Cuenca: closest hubs São Paulo (~4,168 km), New York (~4,875 km), Los Angeles (~5,807 km); farthest indexed hub Singapore (~19,658 km).
Cuenca sits inside Ecuador — the South America subregion, capital Quito, languages Spanish, currency USD ($).
Closest indexed cities to Cuenca: Guayaquil (126 km), Santo Domingo de los Colorados (294 km), Quito (301 km), Trujillo (581 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Cuenca: Declaration of Independence of Quito, Independence of Guayaquil, All Souls' Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Ecuador.
Closest curated airport references from Cuenca: GYE Guayaquil (128 km), UIO Quito (316 km).
José Joaquín de Olmedo International AirportGYE
Guayaquil · 128 km from Cuenca
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 55m
Mariscal Sucre International AirportUIO
Quito · 316 km from Cuenca
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 9m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:01 AM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:01 AM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:01 AM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:01 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:01 PM | +13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:01 PM | +14h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:01 PM | +15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:01 AM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
Cuenca is in the America/Guayaquil timezone (ECT), with a UTC offset of -05:00.
Cuenca does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC-05:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Cuenca is UTC-05:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Cuenca, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 05:01 GMT-5. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Cuenca sits at 2.90°S, 79.00°W in Ecuador, with about 637K residents (rank #3 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Cuenca is São Paulo, about 4,168 km away as the crow flies.
Guayaquil is the closest indexed city, roughly 126 km from Cuenca.
José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport (GYE) is the closest curated airport reference, about 128 km from Cuenca.
Declaration of Independence of Quito is the next upcoming holiday in Ecuador, on Monday, August 10, 2026.
Cuenca uses United States dollar (USD, symbol $) as the local currency of Ecuador.
The longest day of 2026 in Cuenca falls on Jan 1 with about 12h 17m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 8 with 11h 57m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
Ecuador spans 2 IANA time zones in total; Cuenca's canonical zone for this page is America/Guayaquil.
In Cuenca local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 08:00-16:00; London 03:00-11:00; Frankfurt 02:00-10:00; Dubai 00:00-08:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.