Indexed entity
Portmore is the portmore-JM record in Jamaica: country slug jamaica, city slug portmore, ISO JM, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Jamaica.
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Live local time
Portmore, Jamaica
05:44:36 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · America/Jamaica
Quick answer
It is currently 05:44:36 AM (EST, UTC-05:00) in Portmore, Jamaica — Early morning.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
25°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
33°C
25°C
92% rain
Wed
32°C
25°C
51% rain
Thu
31°C
25°C
55% 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
05:31 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 Portmore, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:44 AM UTC.
Current local time
05:44:36 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 Portmore right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Portmore
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 Portmore, Jamaica.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 05:44 EST
No reference-city overlap right now
Portmore 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
11:44 AM / +6h
New York
06:44 AM / +1h
Los Angeles
03:44 AM / -2h
Schedule risk
Emancipation Day on Saturday, August 1, 2026
Travel cue
Spanish Town, 8 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:31 AM to 06:39 PM, with solar noon around 12:05 PM and total daylight of 13h 8m.
Mapped location
17.97°N, 76.89°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:44 AM / +6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:44 AM / +1h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:44 AM / -2h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:44 PM / +9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:44 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 Portmore.
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 Portmore 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: Spanish Town, 8 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
Portmore 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 Portmore.
Canonical route
/time/jamaica/portmore/
Catalog identity
portmore-JM · JM · America
Coordinate cell
17.97°N, 76.89°W · lat 17.971 · lon -76.887 · cell 1797:-7689
Population record
102,861 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
America/Jamaica · EST · UTC-05:00
January / July offsets
UTC-05:00 / UTC-05:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Spanish Town, Jamaica · 8 km
Nearest world hub
New York · 2,544 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Portmore
Zone peer roster
Kingston, Jamaica · New Kingston, Jamaica · Spanish Town, Jamaica
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Portmore: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Portmore is the portmore-JM record in Jamaica: country slug jamaica, city slug portmore, ISO JM, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Jamaica.
17.97°N, 76.89°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 17 and longitude band -77; exact decimal pair 17.97102, -76.88691.
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 Portmore 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.
Spanish Town [spanish-town-JM, JM, America/Jamaica, 8 km]; Kingston [kingston-JM, JM, America/Jamaica, 10 km]; New Kingston [new-kingston-JM, JM, America/Jamaica, 12 km]; Santiago de Cuba [santiago-de-cuba-CU, CU, America/Havana, 254 km]; Holguín [holguin-CU, CU, America/Havana, 331 km]; Carrefour [carrefour-HT, HT, America/Port-au-Prince, 478 km]; Port-de-Paix [port-de-paix-HT, HT, America/Port-au-Prince, 479 km]; Port-au-Prince [port-au-prince-HT, HT, America/Port-au-Prince, 484 km]
Portmore 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 2,544 km; Los Angeles 4,465 km; São Paulo 5,666 km; London 7,544 km; Tokyo 12,917 km; Dubai 12,955 km; Sydney 14,943 km; Singapore 17,865 km
Portmore has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Jamaica.
Portmore renders Jun 2, 2026 · 05:44 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 Portmore.
Portmore is a context-and-reference city; rank #4 of 4 retained Jamaica city pages. The route is /time/jamaica/portmore/ and the city id is portmore-JM.
Portmore 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.
Portmore is pinned at 17.97°N, 76.89°W; Spanish Town (8 km); New York (2,544 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.
Portmore has no direct nearby-airport handoff · Emancipation Day (Saturday, August 1, 2026) · 0 country airport references · 10 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Portmore 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.
Portmore, Saint Catherine: Portmore is a city in southeastern Jamaica, located in the parish of St Catherine. It primarily serves as a commuter town for the capital city of Kingston.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-05:00) is constant year-round.
Portmore 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 -76.89°, Portmore's mean solar noon falls about 8 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.
Portmore sits at 17.97°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.
Portmore sits at 17.97°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 16 (11h 3m)
Year-round average
12h 8m
Annual swing
2h 9m
See the full daylight curve for Portmore at /sun/portmore/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Portmore local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Portmore |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Portmore's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 05:44:36 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Portmore (UTC-05:00, EST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:31 AM to 06:39 PM
Day length 13h 8m · Solar noon 12:05 PM
Next country holiday
Emancipation Day
Saturday, August 1, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Portmore local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
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
Population
102.9K
Coordinates
17.97, -76.89
Timezone
America/Jamaica
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Kingston
Languages
English, Jamaican Patois
Currency
JMD ($)
Country area
10,991 km²
Portmore, Jamaica (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: America/Jamaica (EST, UTC-05:00); population ~102.9K.
Coordinates: 17.97°N, 76.89°W. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~1995 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:31 AM and sets around 06:39 PM in Portmore — about 13h 8m of daylight. Jamaica stays on standard time here, so UTC-05:00 is stable through the year.
Spanish Town (8 km from Portmore) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Jamaica.
Next national holiday: Emancipation Day, 2026-08-01.
Portmore is indexed as a America city in the JM country record, using America/Jamaica as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/jamaica/portmore/.
Location context: 17.97°N, 76.89°W; population 102,861; nearest indexed city Spanish Town is about 8 km away; closest reference hub is New York, about 2,544 km away.
Country planning context: capital Kingston; subregion Caribbean; languages English, Jamaican Patois; currency JMD ($); 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.
Portmore 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 -76.89°, Portmore's mean solar noon falls about 8 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.
Portmore sits at 17.97°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.
Mid-sized city with around 103 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Portmore city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Portmore: 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 Portmore.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Portmore: closest hubs New York (~2,544 km), Los Angeles (~4,465 km), São Paulo (~5,666 km); farthest indexed hub Singapore (~17,865 km).
Portmore sits inside Jamaica — the Caribbean subregion, capital Kingston, languages English, Jamaican Patois, currency JMD ($).
Closest indexed cities to Portmore: Spanish Town (8 km), Kingston (10 km), New Kingston (12 km), Santiago de Cuba (254 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Portmore: 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 Portmore, 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 | 11:44 AM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:44 AM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:44 AM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:44 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:44 PM | +13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:44 PM | +14h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:44 PM | +15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:44 AM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
Portmore is in the America/Jamaica timezone (EST), with a UTC offset of -05:00.
Portmore 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 Portmore is UTC-05:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Portmore, 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 · 05:44 EST. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Portmore sits at 17.97°N, 76.89°W in Jamaica, with about 102.9K residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Portmore is New York, about 2,544 km away as the crow flies.
Spanish Town is the closest indexed city, roughly 8 km from Portmore.
Emancipation Day is the next upcoming holiday in Jamaica, on Saturday, August 1, 2026.
Portmore uses Jamaican dollar (JMD, symbol $) as the local currency of Jamaica.
The longest day of 2026 in Portmore falls on Jun 12 with about 13h 12m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 16 with 11h 3m; the year-round average is 12h 8m.
In Portmore 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.