Indexed entity
Kourou is the kourou-GF record in French Guiana: country slug french-guiana, city slug kourou, ISO GF, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Cayenne.
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Live local time
Kourou, French Guiana
07:47:01 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · America/Cayenne
Quick answer
It is currently 07:47:01 AM (GFT, UTC-03:00) in Kourou, French Guiana — Early morning.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
26°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
30°C
24°C
98% rain
Wed
28°C
24°C
96% rain
Thu
28°C
23°C
99% rain
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Euro
1 USD = 0.8624 EUR
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
06:16 AM
Sunset
06:40 PM
Day length
12h 24m
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 Kourou, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:47 AM UTC.
Current local time
07:47:01 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
GFT
America/Cayenne · UTC-03:00
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Kourou right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Kourou
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for French Guiana
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Kourou, French Guiana.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 07:47 GMT-3
No reference-city overlap right now
Kourou is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC-03:00
Zone label
GMT-3
London
11:47 AM / +4h
New York
06:47 AM / -1h
Los Angeles
03:47 AM / -4h
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
Cayenne, 42 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:16 AM to 06:40 PM, with solar noon around 12:28 PM and total daylight of 12h 24m.
Mapped location
5.16°N, 52.64°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:47 AM / +4h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:47 AM / -1h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:47 AM / -4h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:47 PM / +7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:47 PM / +11h
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 Kourou.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use America/Cayenne for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC-03:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC-03:00.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Kourou right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest mapped context: Cayenne, 42 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for America/Cayenne. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Kourou has no near-term DST change or holiday interruption in view, but future rules can still be revised by local authorities.
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 Kourou.
Canonical route
/time/french-guiana/kourou/
Catalog identity
kourou-GF · GF · America
Coordinate cell
5.16°N, 52.64°W · lat 5.163 · lon -52.643 · cell 516:-5264
Population record
24,029 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
America/Cayenne · GMT-3 · UTC-03:00
January / July offsets
UTC-03:00 / UTC-03:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Cayenne, French Guiana · 42 km
Nearest world hub
São Paulo · 3,259 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Kourou
Zone peer roster
Cayenne, French Guiana · Matoury, French Guiana · Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Kourou: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Kourou is the kourou-GF record in French Guiana: country slug french-guiana, city slug kourou, ISO GF, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Cayenne.
5.16°N, 52.64°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 5 and longitude band -53; exact decimal pair 5.16281, -52.64265.
French Guiana: official name Guiana; capital Cayenne; region Americas; subregion South America; country population 292,354; area 83,534 km²; languages French; currencies EUR euro. This is the country layer behind the Kourou clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
French Guiana: French Guiana, or Guyane in French, is an overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies. Bordered by Suriname to the west and Brazil to the east and south, French Guiana covers a total area of 84,000 km2 (32,000 sq mi) and a land area of 83,534 km2 (32,253 sq mi). As of January 2026, it is home to 298,554 people. Source: Wikipedia.
Cayenne [cayenne-GF, GF, America/Cayenne, 42 km]; Matoury [matoury-GF, GF, America/Cayenne, 50 km]; Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni [saint-laurent-du-maroni-GF, GF, America/Cayenne, 158 km]; Blauwgrond [blauwgrond-SR, SR, America/Paramaribo, 284 km]; Rainville [rainville-SR, SR, America/Paramaribo, 286 km]; Paramaribo [paramaribo-SR, SR, America/Paramaribo, 290 km]; Flora [flora-SR, SR, America/Paramaribo, 292 km]; New Amsterdam [new-amsterdam-GY, GY, America/Guyana, 553 km]
Kourou is part of this indexed country cluster: Cayenne [cayenne-GF, America/Cayenne, pop 61,550]; Matoury [matoury-GF, America/Cayenne, pop 26,350]; Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni [saint-laurent-du-maroni-GF, America/Cayenne, pop 24,287]; Kourou [kourou-GF, America/Cayenne, pop 24,029].
São Paulo 3,259 km; New York 4,490 km; London 7,050 km; Los Angeles 7,446 km; Dubai 11,544 km; Tokyo 15,296 km; Sydney 15,985 km; Singapore 17,302 km
Kourou has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for French Guiana.
Kourou renders Jun 2, 2026 · 07:47 GMT-3; GMT-3 at UTC-03:00; January UTC-03:00; July UTC-03:00; next holiday not currently surfaced.
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 Kourou.
Kourou is a context-and-reference city; rank #4 of 4 retained French Guiana city pages. The route is /time/french-guiana/kourou/ and the city id is kourou-GF.
Kourou has 12 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.
Kourou is pinned at 5.16°N, 52.64°W; Cayenne (42 km); São Paulo (3,259 km).
America/Cayenne resolves to stable UTC-03:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside French Guiana.
Kourou has no direct nearby-airport handoff · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 0 country airport references · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Kourou 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.
Kourou: Kourou is a commune in French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France in South America. Kourou is famous for being the location of the Guiana Space Centre, the main spaceport of France and the European Space Agency (ESA). It is an administrative district in French Guiana and the main town there.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-03:00) is constant year-round.
Kourou is listed in the dataset snapshot as 3 hours behind UTC (offset -03:00). 4 hours behind London, 12 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -52.64°, Kourou's mean solar noon falls about 31 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.
Kourou sits at 5.16°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Kourou sits at 5.16°N, 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
Jun 6 (12h 25m)
Shortest day
Dec 15 (11h 49m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 36m
See the full daylight curve for Kourou at /sun/kourou/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Kourou local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Kourou |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 05:00 - 13:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 04:00 - 12:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 00:30 - 08:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 22:00 - 06:00 (next day) |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 22:00 - 06:00 (next day) |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 21:00 - 05:00 (next day) |
Reference fields include Kourou's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 07:47:01 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Kourou (UTC-03:00, GFT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:16 AM to 06:40 PM
Day length 12h 24m · Solar noon 12:28 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Kourou local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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5 days to go
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8 days to go
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34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
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161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
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187 days to go
Population
24K
Coordinates
5.16, -52.64
Timezone
America/Cayenne
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Cayenne
Languages
French
Currency
EUR (€)
Country area
83,534 km²
Kourou, French Guiana (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: America/Cayenne (GFT, UTC-03:00); population ~24K.
Coordinates: 5.16°N, 52.64°W. Northern Hemisphere deep tropics, ~573 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:16 AM and sets around 06:40 PM in Kourou — about 12h 24m of daylight. French Guiana stays on standard time here, so UTC-03:00 is stable through the year.
Cayenne (42 km from Kourou) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for French Guiana.
Kourou is indexed as a America city in the GF country record, using America/Cayenne as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/french-guiana/kourou/.
Location context: 5.16°N, 52.64°W; population 24,029; nearest indexed city Cayenne is about 42 km away; closest reference hub is São Paulo, about 3,259 km away.
Country planning context: capital Cayenne; subregion South America; languages French; currency EUR (€); area 83,534 km²; 0 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-03:00) is constant year-round.
Kourou is listed in the dataset snapshot as 3 hours behind UTC (offset -03:00). 4 hours behind London, 12 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -52.64°, Kourou's mean solar noon falls about 31 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.
Kourou sits at 5.16°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Related clock anchors for Kourou: Cayenne (same time), Sydney (+13h), Tokyo (+12h), Singapore (+11h), Mumbai (+8.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
french-guiana
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
GFT
IANA Zone
America/Cayenne
UTC Offset
UTC-03:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC-03:00
Argentina, Canada, Bermuda, Greenland, Brazil, Antarctica, Chile, Falkland Islands
Other cities in this timezone
London
+4h
New York
-1h
Los Angeles
-4h
Dubai
+7h
Singapore
+11h
Tokyo
+12h
Sydney
+13h
São Paulo
+0h
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 Kourou.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Kourou: closest hubs São Paulo (~3,259 km), New York (~4,490 km), London (~7,050 km); farthest indexed hub Singapore (~17,302 km).
Kourou sits inside French Guiana — the South America subregion, capital Cayenne, languages French, currency EUR (€).
Closest indexed cities to Kourou: Cayenne (42 km), Matoury (50 km), Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (158 km), Blauwgrond (284 km).
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Kourou, so this page falls back to timezone and regional planning context instead of showing a broken travel panel.
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 | 11:47 AM | +4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:47 AM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:47 AM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:47 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:47 PM | +11h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:47 PM | +12h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:47 PM | +13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:47 AM | +0h | Check the overlap widget below |
Cayenne
French Guiana
Approx. 42 km away
Matoury
French Guiana
Approx. 50 km away
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni
French Guiana
Approx. 158 km away
Blauwgrond
Suriname
Approx. 284 km away
Rainville
Suriname
Approx. 286 km away
Paramaribo
Suriname
Approx. 290 km away
Flora
Suriname
Approx. 292 km away
New Amsterdam
Guyana
Approx. 553 km away
Kourou is in the America/Cayenne timezone (GFT), with a UTC offset of -03:00.
Kourou does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC-03:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Kourou is UTC-03:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Kourou, 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 · 07:47 GMT-3. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Kourou sits at 5.16°N, 52.64°W in French Guiana, with about 24K residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Kourou is São Paulo, about 3,259 km away as the crow flies.
Cayenne is the closest indexed city, roughly 42 km from Kourou.
Kourou uses euro (EUR, symbol €) as the local currency of French Guiana.
The longest day of 2026 in Kourou falls on Jun 6 with about 12h 25m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 15 with 11h 49m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
In Kourou local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 10:00-18:00; London 05:00-13:00; Frankfurt 04:00-12:00; Dubai 02:00-10:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.