Indexed entity
New Kingston is the new-kingston-JM record in Jamaica: country slug jamaica, city slug new-kingston, ISO JM, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Jamaica.
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Live local time
New Kingston, Jamaica
05:45:13 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · America/Jamaica
Quick answer
It is currently 05:45:13 AM (EST, UTC-05:00) in New 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
22°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 New 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
05:45:13 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 New Kingston right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near New 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 New Kingston, Jamaica.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 05:45 EST
No reference-city overlap right now
New 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
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
18.01°N, 76.78°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 New 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 New 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: 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
New 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 New Kingston.
Canonical route
/time/jamaica/new-kingston/
Catalog identity
new-kingston-JM · JM · America
Coordinate cell
18.01°N, 76.78°W · lat 18.007 · lon -76.783 · cell 1801:-7678
Population record
583,958 residents · country rank 2
Zone snapshot
America/Jamaica · EST · UTC-05:00
January / July offsets
UTC-05:00 / UTC-05:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Kingston, Jamaica · 2 km
Nearest world hub
New York · 2,539 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to New Kingston
Zone peer roster
Kingston, Jamaica · Spanish Town, Jamaica · Portmore, Jamaica
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for New Kingston: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
New Kingston is the new-kingston-JM record in Jamaica: country slug jamaica, city slug new-kingston, ISO JM, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Jamaica.
18.01°N, 76.78°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 18 and longitude band -77; exact decimal pair 18.00747, -76.78319.
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 New 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.
Kingston [kingston-JM, JM, America/Jamaica, 2 km]; Portmore [portmore-JM, JM, America/Jamaica, 12 km]; Spanish Town [spanish-town-JM, JM, America/Jamaica, 19 km]; Santiago de Cuba [santiago-de-cuba-CU, CU, America/Havana, 246 km]; Holguín [holguin-CU, CU, America/Havana, 325 km]; Carrefour [carrefour-HT, HT, America/Port-au-Prince, 467 km]; Port-de-Paix [port-de-paix-HT, HT, America/Port-au-Prince, 468 km]; Port-au-Prince [port-au-prince-HT, HT, America/Port-au-Prince, 473 km]
New 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 2,539 km; Los Angeles 4,472 km; São Paulo 5,663 km; London 7,534 km; Tokyo 12,919 km; Dubai 12,944 km; Sydney 14,954 km; Singapore 17,861 km
New Kingston has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Jamaica.
New 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 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 New Kingston.
New Kingston is a context-and-reference city; rank #2 of 4 retained Jamaica city pages. The route is /time/jamaica/new-kingston/ and the city id is new-kingston-JM.
New Kingston has 13 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.
New Kingston is pinned at 18.01°N, 76.78°W; Kingston (2 km); New York (2,539 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.
New 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.
New 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.
New 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 -76.78°, New 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.
New Kingston sits at 18.01°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.
New Kingston sits at 18.01°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 20 (13h 13m)
Shortest day
Dec 15 (11h 3m)
Year-round average
12h 8m
Annual swing
2h 10m
See the full daylight curve for New Kingston at /sun/new-kingston/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into New Kingston local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in New 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
Reference fields include New Kingston's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 05:45:13 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in New 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 New Kingston local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Code with Claude Tokyo 2026
keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
Population
584K
Coordinates
18.01, -76.78
Timezone
America/Jamaica
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Kingston
Languages
English, Jamaican Patois
Currency
JMD ($)
Country area
10,991 km²
New Kingston, Jamaica (population rank #2 in this dataset). Time zone: America/Jamaica (EST, UTC-05:00); population ~584K.
Coordinates: 18.01°N, 76.78°W. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~1999 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:30 AM and sets around 06:39 PM in New Kingston — about 13h 9m of daylight. Jamaica stays on standard time here, so UTC-05:00 is stable through the year.
Kingston (2 km from New Kingston) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Jamaica.
Next national holiday: Emancipation Day, 2026-08-01.
New Kingston is indexed as a America city in the JM country record, using America/Jamaica as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/jamaica/new-kingston/.
Location context: 18.01°N, 76.78°W; population 583,958; nearest indexed city Kingston is about 2 km away; closest reference hub is New York, about 2,539 km away.
Country planning context: capital Kingston; subregion Caribbean; languages English, Jamaican Patois; currency JMD ($); 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.
New 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 -76.78°, New 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.
New Kingston sits at 18.01°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 584 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for New Kingston: 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 New Kingston.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from New Kingston: closest hubs New York (~2,539 km), Los Angeles (~4,472 km), São Paulo (~5,663 km); farthest indexed hub Singapore (~17,861 km).
New Kingston sits inside Jamaica — the Caribbean subregion, capital Kingston, languages English, Jamaican Patois, currency JMD ($).
Closest indexed cities to New Kingston: Kingston (2 km), Portmore (12 km), Spanish Town (19 km), Santiago de Cuba (246 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around New 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 New 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 |
New Kingston is in the America/Jamaica timezone (EST), with a UTC offset of -05:00.
New 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 New Kingston is UTC-05:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for New 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.
New Kingston sits at 18.01°N, 76.78°W in Jamaica, with about 584K residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to New Kingston is New York, about 2,539 km away as the crow flies.
Kingston is the closest indexed city, roughly 2 km from New Kingston.
Emancipation Day is the next upcoming holiday in Jamaica, on Saturday, August 1, 2026.
New Kingston uses Jamaican dollar (JMD, symbol $) as the local currency of Jamaica.
The longest day of 2026 in New Kingston falls on Jun 20 with about 13h 13m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 15 with 11h 3m; the year-round average is 12h 8m.
In New 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.