Indexed entity
León is the leon-NI record in Nicaragua: country slug nicaragua, city slug leon, ISO NI, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Managua.
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Live local time
León, Nicaragua
04:42:53 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · America/Managua
Quick answer
It is currently 04:42:53 AM (CST, UTC-06:00) in León, Nicaragua — Late night.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
29°C
Thunderstorm
3-day forecast
Mon
38°C
27°C
49% rain
Tue
37°C
26°C
79% rain
Wed
34°C
26°C
98% rain
In 47 days
Liberation Day
Sun, Jul 19, 2026
PublicIn 104 days
Battle of San Jacinto
Mon, Sep 14, 2026
PublicIn 105 days
Tue, Sep 15, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
NIO
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
05:21 AM
Sunset
06:09 PM
Day length
12h 49m
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 León, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:42 AM UTC.
Current local time
04:42:53 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CST
America/Managua · UTC-06:00
Next holiday
Liberation Day
Sunday, July 19, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with León right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near León
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Nicaragua
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to León, Nicaragua.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 04:42 CST
No reference-city overlap right now
León is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC-06:00
Zone label
CST
London
11:42 AM / +7h
New York
06:42 AM / +2h
Los Angeles
03:42 AM / -1h
Schedule risk
Liberation Day on Sunday, July 19, 2026
Travel cue
Chinandega, 35 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:21 AM to 06:09 PM, with solar noon around 11:45 AM and total daylight of 12h 48m.
Mapped location
12.44°N, 86.88°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:42 AM / +7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:42 AM / +2h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:42 AM / -1h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:42 PM / +10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:42 PM / +14h
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 León.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use America/Managua for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC-06:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC-06:00.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps León right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
Liberation Day on Sunday, July 19, 2026. Nearest mapped context: Chinandega, 35 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for America/Managua. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
León has no near-term DST change in view, but Liberation 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 León.
Canonical route
/time/nicaragua/leon/
Catalog identity
leon-NI · NI · America
Coordinate cell
12.44°N, 86.88°W · lat 12.435 · lon -86.879 · cell 1244:-8688
Population record
144,538 residents · country rank 2
Zone snapshot
America/Managua · CST · UTC-06:00
January / July offsets
UTC-06:00 / UTC-06:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Chinandega, Nicaragua · 35 km
Nearest world hub
New York · 3,386 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to León
Zone peer roster
Managua, Nicaragua · Masaya, Nicaragua · Chinandega, Nicaragua
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for León: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
León is the leon-NI record in Nicaragua: country slug nicaragua, city slug leon, ISO NI, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Managua.
12.44°N, 86.88°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 12 and longitude band -87; exact decimal pair 12.43527, -86.87862.
Nicaragua: official name Republic of Nicaragua; capital Managua; region Americas; subregion Central America; country population 6,803,886; area 130,373 km²; languages Spanish; currencies NIO Nicaraguan córdoba. This is the country layer behind the León clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Nicaragua: Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising 130,370 square kilometres (50,340 sq mi). With a population of 7,142,529 as of 2024, it is the third-most populous country in Central America after Guatemala and Honduras, and it is the largest by area in all of Central America. Source: Wikipedia.
Chinandega [chinandega-NI, NI, America/Managua, 35 km]; Managua [managua-NI, NI, America/Managua, 76 km]; Masaya [masaya-NI, NI, America/Managua, 99 km]; San Miguel [san-miguel-SV, SV, America/El_Salvador, 183 km]; Tegucigalpa [tegucigalpa-HN, HN, America/Tegucigalpa, 186 km]; San José [san-jose-CR, CR, America/Costa_Rica, 251 km]; Soyapango [soyapango-SV, SV, America/El_Salvador, 283 km]; San Salvador [san-salvador-SV, SV, America/El_Salvador, 286 km]
León is part of this indexed country cluster: Managua [managua-NI, America/Managua, pop 973,087]; León [leon-NI, America/Managua, pop 144,538]; Masaya [masaya-NI, America/Managua, pop 130,113]; Chinandega [chinandega-NI, America/Managua, pop 126,387].
New York 3,386 km; Los Angeles 3,977 km; São Paulo 5,930 km; London 8,705 km; Tokyo 12,770 km; Sydney 13,707 km; Dubai 14,155 km; Singapore 18,080 km
León has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Nicaragua.
León renders Jun 2, 2026 · 04:42 CST; CST at UTC-06:00; January UTC-06:00; July UTC-06:00; next holiday Liberation Day on 2026-07-19.
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 León.
León is a context-and-reference city; rank #2 of 4 retained Nicaragua city pages. The route is /time/nicaragua/leon/ and the city id is leon-NI.
León 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.
León is pinned at 12.44°N, 86.88°W; Chinandega (35 km); New York (3,386 km).
America/Managua resolves to stable UTC-06:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Nicaragua.
León has no direct nearby-airport handoff · Liberation Day (Sunday, July 19, 2026) · 0 country airport references · 12 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
León 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.
León, Nicaragua: León is the second largest city in Nicaragua, after Managua. Founded by the Spanish as Santiago de los Caballeros de León, it is the capital and largest city of León Department. As of 2022, the municipality of León has an estimated population of 213,718.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-06:00) is constant year-round.
León is listed in the dataset snapshot as 6 hours behind UTC (offset -06:00). 7 hours behind London, 15 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -86.88°, León's mean solar noon falls about 12 minutes before civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run earlier on the clock than they would on true solar time.
León sits at 12.44°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.
León sits at 12.44°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 11 (12h 51m)
Shortest day
Dec 11 (11h 24m)
Year-round average
12h 8m
Annual swing
1h 27m
See the full daylight curve for León at /sun/leon/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into León local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in León |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 07:00 - 15:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 01:00 - 09:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 23:00 - 07:00 (next day) |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 21:30 - 05:30 (next day) |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 19:00 - 03:00 (next day) |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 19:00 - 03:00 (next day) |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 18:00 - 02:00 (next day) |
Public holidays in 2026
12
Reference fields include León's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 04:42:53 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in León (UTC-06:00, CST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:21 AM to 06:09 PM
Day length 12h 48m · Solar noon 11:45 AM
Next country holiday
Liberation Day
Sunday, July 19, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for León local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
NeurIPS 2026
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187 days to go
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5 days to go
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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
Population
144.5K
Coordinates
12.44, -86.88
Timezone
America/Managua
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Managua
Languages
Spanish
Currency
NIO (C$)
Country area
130,373 km²
León, Nicaragua (population rank #2 in this dataset). Time zone: America/Managua (CST, UTC-06:00); population ~144.5K.
Coordinates: 12.44°N, 86.88°W. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~1380 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:21 AM and sets around 06:09 PM in León — about 12h 48m of daylight. Nicaragua stays on standard time here, so UTC-06:00 is stable through the year.
Chinandega (35 km from León) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Nicaragua.
Next national holiday: Liberation Day, 2026-07-19.
León is indexed as a America city in the NI country record, using America/Managua as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/nicaragua/leon/.
Location context: 12.44°N, 86.88°W; population 144,538; nearest indexed city Chinandega is about 35 km away; closest reference hub is New York, about 3,386 km away.
Country planning context: capital Managua; subregion Central America; languages Spanish; currency NIO (C$); area 130,373 km²; 0 curated airport references; next holiday Liberation Day on 2026-07-19.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-06:00) is constant year-round.
León is listed in the dataset snapshot as 6 hours behind UTC (offset -06:00). 7 hours behind London, 15 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -86.88°, León's mean solar noon falls about 12 minutes before civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run earlier on the clock than they would on true solar time.
León sits at 12.44°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 145 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (León city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for León: Managua (same time), Sydney (+16h), Tokyo (+15h), Mumbai (+11.5h), São Paulo (+3h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
nicaragua
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CST
IANA Zone
America/Managua
UTC Offset
UTC-06:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC-06:00
Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Canada, Honduras
Other cities in this timezone
London
+7h
New York
+2h
Los Angeles
-1h
Dubai
+10h
Singapore
+14h
Tokyo
+15h
Sydney
+16h
São Paulo
+3h
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 León.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from León: closest hubs New York (~3,386 km), Los Angeles (~3,977 km), São Paulo (~5,930 km); farthest indexed hub Singapore (~18,080 km).
León sits inside Nicaragua — the Central America subregion, capital Managua, languages Spanish, currency NIO (C$).
Closest indexed cities to León: Chinandega (35 km), Managua (76 km), Masaya (99 km), San Miguel (183 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around León: Liberation Day, Battle of San Jacinto, Independence Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Nicaragua.
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for León, 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 | 11:42 AM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:42 AM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:42 AM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:42 PM | +10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:42 PM | +14h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:42 PM | +15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:42 PM | +16h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:42 AM | +3h | Check the overlap widget below |
Chinandega
Nicaragua
Approx. 35 km away
Managua
Nicaragua
Approx. 76 km away
Masaya
Nicaragua
Approx. 99 km away
San Miguel
El Salvador
Approx. 183 km away
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Approx. 186 km away
San José
Costa Rica
Approx. 251 km away
Soyapango
El Salvador
Approx. 283 km away
San Salvador
El Salvador
Approx. 286 km away
León is in the America/Managua timezone (CST), with a UTC offset of -06:00.
León does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC-06:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for León is UTC-06:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for León, 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 · 04:42 CST. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
León sits at 12.44°N, 86.88°W in Nicaragua, with about 144.5K residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to León is New York, about 3,386 km away as the crow flies.
Chinandega is the closest indexed city, roughly 35 km from León.
Liberation Day is the next upcoming holiday in Nicaragua, on Sunday, July 19, 2026.
León uses Nicaraguan córdoba (NIO, symbol C$) as the local currency of Nicaragua.
The longest day of 2026 in León falls on Jun 11 with about 12h 51m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 11 with 11h 24m; the year-round average is 12h 8m.
In León local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 07:00-15:00; London 02:00-10:00; Frankfurt 01:00-09:00; Dubai 23:00-07:00 (next day). These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.