Indexed entity
Kingston is the kingston-JM record in Jamaica: country slug jamaica, city slug kingston, ISO JM, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Jamaica.
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Live local time
Kingston, Jamaica
05:45:37 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · America/Jamaica
Quick answer
It is currently 05:45:37 AM (EST, UTC-05:00) in Kingston, Jamaica — Early morning.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
23°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
33°C
23°C
81% rain
Wed
31°C
23°C
65% rain
Thu
31°C
23°C
66% rain
In 60 days
Emancipation Day
Sat, Aug 1, 2026
PublicIn 65 days
Thu, Aug 6, 2026
PublicIn 136 days
National Heroes Day
Fri, Oct 16, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
JMD
Live ECB rate not available for this currency.
Conversion rates aren’t published for this currency by the ECB. The local code is shown for reference.
Today
Sunrise
05:30 AM
Sunset
06:39 PM
Day length
13h 9m
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 Kingston, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:45 AM UTC.
Current local time
05:45:37 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
EST
America/Jamaica · UTC-05:00
Next holiday
Emancipation Day
Saturday, August 1, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Kingston right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Kingston
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Jamaica
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Kingston, Jamaica.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 05:45 EST
No reference-city overlap right now
Kingston is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC-05:00
Zone label
EST
London
11:45 AM / +6h
New York
06:45 AM / +1h
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -2h
Schedule risk
Emancipation Day on Saturday, August 1, 2026
Travel cue
New Kingston, 2 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:30 AM to 06:39 PM, with solar noon around 12:05 PM and total daylight of 13h 9m.
Mapped location
18.00°N, 76.79°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:45 AM / +6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:45 AM / +1h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -2h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:45 PM / +9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:45 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 Kingston.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use America/Jamaica 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 Kingston right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
Emancipation Day on Saturday, August 1, 2026. Nearest mapped context: New Kingston, 2 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for America/Jamaica. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Kingston has no near-term DST change in view, but Emancipation Day 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 Kingston.
Canonical route
/time/jamaica/kingston/
Catalog identity
kingston-JM · JM · America
Coordinate cell
18.00°N, 76.79°W · lat 17.997 · lon -76.794 · cell 1800:-7679
Population record
937,700 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
America/Jamaica · EST · UTC-05:00
January / July offsets
UTC-05:00 / UTC-05:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
New Kingston, Jamaica · 2 km
Nearest world hub
New York · 2,540 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Kingston
Zone peer roster
New Kingston, Jamaica · Spanish Town, Jamaica · Portmore, Jamaica
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Kingston: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Kingston is the kingston-JM record in Jamaica: country slug jamaica, city slug kingston, ISO JM, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Jamaica.
18.00°N, 76.79°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 17 and longitude band -77; exact decimal pair 17.99702, -76.79358.
Jamaica: official name Jamaica; capital Kingston; region Americas; subregion Caribbean; country population 2,825,544; area 10,991 km²; languages English, Jamaican Patois; currencies JMD Jamaican dollar. This is the country layer behind the Kingston clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Jamaica: Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean, covering 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi). It is the third-largest island in the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean, after Cuba and the island of Hispaniola. Jamaica lies about 145 km (78 nmi) south of Cuba, 191 km (103 nmi) west of Hispaniola, and 215 km (116 nmi) southeast of the Cayman Islands. With 2.8 million people, Jamaica is the third most populous Anglophone country in the Americas and the fourth most populous country in the Caribbean. Kingston is the country's capital and largest city. Source: Wikipedia.
New Kingston [new-kingston-JM, JM, America/Jamaica, 2 km]; Portmore [portmore-JM, JM, America/Jamaica, 10 km]; Spanish Town [spanish-town-JM, JM, America/Jamaica, 17 km]; Santiago de Cuba [santiago-de-cuba-CU, CU, America/Havana, 247 km]; Holguín [holguin-CU, CU, America/Havana, 326 km]; Carrefour [carrefour-HT, HT, America/Port-au-Prince, 468 km]; Port-de-Paix [port-de-paix-HT, HT, America/Port-au-Prince, 469 km]; Port-au-Prince [port-au-prince-HT, HT, America/Port-au-Prince, 474 km]
Kingston is part of this indexed country cluster: Kingston [kingston-JM, America/Jamaica, pop 937,700]; New Kingston [new-kingston-JM, America/Jamaica, pop 583,958]; Spanish Town [spanish-town-JM, America/Jamaica, pop 145,018]; Portmore [portmore-JM, America/Jamaica, pop 102,861].
New York 2,540 km; Los Angeles 4,472 km; São Paulo 5,662 km; London 7,536 km; Tokyo 12,919 km; Dubai 12,945 km; Sydney 14,953 km; Singapore 17,863 km
Kingston has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Jamaica.
Kingston renders Jun 2, 2026 · 05:45 EST; EST at UTC-05:00; January UTC-05:00; July UTC-05:00; next holiday Emancipation Day on 2026-08-01.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Kingston.
Kingston is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 4 retained Jamaica city pages. The route is /time/jamaica/kingston/ and the city id is kingston-JM.
Kingston has 14 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.
Kingston is pinned at 18.00°N, 76.79°W; New Kingston (2 km); New York (2,540 km).
America/Jamaica resolves to stable UTC-05:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Jamaica.
Kingston has no direct nearby-airport handoff · Emancipation Day (Saturday, August 1, 2026) · 0 country airport references · 10 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Kingston 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.
Kingston, Jamaica: Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island. Kingston is the largest English-speaking city south of the United States in the Western Hemisphere.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-05:00) is constant year-round.
Kingston 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 -76.79°, Kingston's mean solar noon falls about 7 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.
Kingston sits at 18.00°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Kingston sits at 18.00°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
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 12 (13h 12m)
Shortest day
Dec 15 (11h 3m)
Year-round average
12h 8m
Annual swing
2h 9m
See the full daylight curve for Kingston at /sun/kingston/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Kingston local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Kingston |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
Public holidays in 2026
10
Capital status
National capital of Jamaica
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, with roughly 660,000 residents in the city corporate area and about 1.2 million across the wider metropolitan region that spans Kingston and St. Andrew parishes. It observes Eastern Standard Time (EST, UTC-5) year-round under the IANA zone America/Jamaica, and the island has not used daylight saving time since the 1980s. Set on the Liguanea Plain between the Blue Mountains and one of the largest natural harbours in the world, the city was founded in July 1692 to shelter survivors of the earthquake that destroyed nearby Port Royal. Kingston became the seat of Jamaican government in 1872 and today concentrates the country's finance, shipping, and creative industries. It is the birthplace of reggae and the home of the Bob Marley Museum, giving it outsized cultural reach for a city of its size.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-23 (research).
Reference fields include Kingston's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 05:45:37 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Kingston (UTC-05:00, EST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:30 AM to 06:39 PM
Day length 13h 9m · Solar noon 12:05 PM
Next country holiday
Emancipation Day
Saturday, August 1, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Kingston local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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161 days to go
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187 days to go
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ICML 2026
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34 days to go
Population
937.7K
Coordinates
18.00, -76.79
Timezone
America/Jamaica
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Kingston
Languages
English, Jamaican Patois
Currency
JMD ($)
Country area
10,991 km²
Kingston, Jamaica (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: America/Jamaica (EST, UTC-05:00); population ~937.7K.
Coordinates: 18.00°N, 76.79°W. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~1998 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:30 AM and sets around 06:39 PM in Kingston — about 13h 9m of daylight. Jamaica stays on standard time here, so UTC-05:00 is stable through the year.
New Kingston (2 km from Kingston) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Jamaica.
Next national holiday: Emancipation Day, 2026-08-01.
Kingston is indexed as a America city in the JM country record, using America/Jamaica as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/jamaica/kingston/.
Location context: 18.00°N, 76.79°W; population 937,700; nearest indexed city New Kingston is about 2 km away; closest reference hub is New York, about 2,540 km away.
Country planning context: capital Kingston; subregion Caribbean; languages English, Jamaican Patois; currency JMD ($); area 10,991 km²; 0 curated airport references; next holiday Emancipation Day on 2026-08-01.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-05:00) is constant year-round.
Kingston 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 -76.79°, Kingston's mean solar noon falls about 7 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.
Kingston sits at 18.00°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Sizeable city with about 938 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Kingston: New Kingston (same time), Sydney (+15h), Tokyo (+14h), Mumbai (+10.5h), Hong Kong (+13h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
jamaica
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
EST
IANA Zone
America/Jamaica
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 Kingston.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Kingston: closest hubs New York (~2,540 km), Los Angeles (~4,472 km), São Paulo (~5,662 km); farthest indexed hub Singapore (~17,863 km).
Kingston sits inside Jamaica — the Caribbean subregion, capital Kingston, languages English, Jamaican Patois, currency JMD ($).
Closest indexed cities to Kingston: New Kingston (2 km), Portmore (10 km), Spanish Town (17 km), Santiago de Cuba (247 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Kingston: Emancipation Day, Independence Day, National Heroes Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Jamaica.
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Kingston, 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 | 11:45 AM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:45 AM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:45 AM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:45 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:45 PM | +13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:45 PM | +14h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:45 PM | +15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:45 AM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
Kingston is in the America/Jamaica timezone (EST), with a UTC offset of -05:00.
Kingston 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 Kingston is UTC-05:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Kingston, 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 · 05:45 EST. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Kingston sits at 18.00°N, 76.79°W in Jamaica, with about 937.7K residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Kingston is New York, about 2,540 km away as the crow flies.
New Kingston is the closest indexed city, roughly 2 km from Kingston.
Emancipation Day is the next upcoming holiday in Jamaica, on Saturday, August 1, 2026.
Kingston uses Jamaican dollar (JMD, symbol $) as the local currency of Jamaica.
The longest day of 2026 in Kingston falls on Jun 12 with about 13h 12m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 15 with 11h 3m; the year-round average is 12h 8m.
In Kingston 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.