Indexed entity
Ponce is the ponce-PR record in Puerto Rico: country slug puerto-rico, city slug ponce, ISO PR, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Puerto_Rico.
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Live local time
Ponce, Puerto Rico
06:44:36 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · America/Puerto_Rico
Quick answer
It is currently 06:44:36 AM (AST, UTC-04:00) in Ponce, Puerto Rico — Early morning.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
25°C
Partly cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
30°C
24°C
86% rain
Wed
31°C
25°C
89% rain
Thu
30°C
24°C
63% rain
In 31 days
Día de la Independencia de los Estados Unidos (Independence Day)
Fri, Jul 3, 2026
PublicIn 48 days
Natalicio de Don Luis Muñoz Rivera (Birthday of Don Luis Muñoz Rivera)
Mon, Jul 20, 2026
PublicIn 53 days
Constitución de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Constitution Day)
Sat, Jul 25, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
United States Dollar
Quoted as the global reference currency.
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
05:50 AM
Sunset
06:58 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 Ponce, 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
06:44:36 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
AST
America/Puerto_Rico · UTC-04:00
Next holiday
Independence Day
Friday, July 3, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Ponce right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Ponce
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Puerto Rico
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 06:44 AST
No reference-city overlap right now
Ponce is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC-04:00
Zone label
AST
London
11:44 AM / +5h
New York
06:44 AM / +0h
Los Angeles
03:44 AM / -3h
Schedule risk
Independence Day on Friday, July 3, 2026
Travel cue
Bayamón, 66 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:50 AM to 06:58 PM, with solar noon around 12:24 PM and total daylight of 13h 8m.
Mapped location
18.01°N, 66.62°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:44 AM / +5h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:44 AM / +0h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:44 AM / -3h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:44 PM / +8h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:44 PM / +12h
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 Ponce.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use America/Puerto_Rico for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC-04:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC-04:00.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Ponce right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
Independence Day on Friday, July 3, 2026. Nearest mapped context: Bayamón, 66 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for America/Puerto_Rico. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Ponce has no near-term DST change in view, but Independence 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 Ponce.
Canonical route
/time/puerto-rico/ponce/
Catalog identity
ponce-PR · PR · America
Coordinate cell
18.01°N, 66.62°W · lat 18.010 · lon -66.624 · cell 1801:-6662
Population record
137,491 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
America/Puerto_Rico · AST · UTC-04:00
January / July offsets
UTC-04:00 / UTC-04:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Bayamón, Puerto Rico · 66 km
Nearest world hub
New York · 2,621 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Ponce
Zone peer roster
San Juan, Puerto Rico · Bayamón, Puerto Rico · Carolina, Puerto Rico
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Ponce: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Ponce is the ponce-PR record in Puerto Rico: country slug puerto-rico, city slug ponce, ISO PR, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Puerto_Rico.
18.01°N, 66.62°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 18 and longitude band -67; exact decimal pair 18.01031, -66.62398.
Puerto Rico: official name Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; capital San Juan; region Americas; subregion Caribbean; country population 3,203,295; area 8,870 km²; languages English, Spanish; currencies USD United States dollar. This is the country layer behind the Ponce clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Puerto Rico: Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth. Located about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida, between the Dominican Republic in the Greater Antilles and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Lesser Antilles, it consists of the eponymous main island and numerous smaller islands, including Vieques, Culebra, and Mona. With approximately 3.2 million people, it is divided into 78 municipalities, of which the most populous is the capital municipality of San Juan, followed by those within the San Juan metropolitan area. Spanish and English are the official languages of the government, though Spanish predominates. Source: Wikipedia.
Bayamón [bayamon-PR, PR, America/Puerto_Rico, 66 km]; San Juan [san-juan-PR, PR, America/Puerto_Rico, 75 km]; Carolina [carolina-PR, PR, America/Puerto_Rico, 82 km]; Charlotte Amalie [charlotte-amalie-VI, VI, America/St_Thomas, 183 km]; Saint Croix [saint-croix-VI, VI, America/St_Thomas, 201 km]; Road Town [road-town-VG, VG, America/Tortola, 217 km]; Santo Domingo Este [santo-domingo-este-DO, DO, America/Santo_Domingo, 344 km]; Santo Domingo [santo-domingo-DO, DO, America/Santo_Domingo, 349 km]
Ponce is part of this indexed country cluster: San Juan [san-juan-PR, America/Puerto_Rico, pop 418,140]; Bayamón [bayamon-PR, America/Puerto_Rico, pop 203,499]; Carolina [carolina-PR, America/Puerto_Rico, pop 170,404]; Ponce [ponce-PR, America/Puerto_Rico, pop 137,491].
New York 2,621 km; São Paulo 5,106 km; Los Angeles 5,395 km; London 6,832 km; Dubai 12,103 km; Tokyo 13,435 km; Sydney 15,873 km; Singapore 17,621 km
Ponce has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Puerto Rico.
Ponce renders Jun 2, 2026 · 06:44 AST; AST at UTC-04:00; January UTC-04:00; July UTC-04:00; next holiday Independence Day on 2026-07-03.
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 Ponce.
Ponce is a context-and-reference city; rank #4 of 4 retained Puerto Rico city pages. The route is /time/puerto-rico/ponce/ and the city id is ponce-PR.
Ponce 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.
Ponce is pinned at 18.01°N, 66.62°W; Bayamón (66 km); New York (2,621 km).
America/Puerto_Rico resolves to stable UTC-04:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Puerto Rico.
Ponce has no direct nearby-airport handoff · Independence Day (Friday, July 3, 2026) · 0 country airport references · 21 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Ponce 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.
Ponce, Puerto Rico: Ponce is a city and a municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico. The most populated city outside the San Juan metropolitan area, Ponce was founded on August 12, 1692 and is named after Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the great-grandson of Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León. Ponce is often referred to as La Perla del Sur, La Ciudad Señorial, and La Ciudad de las Quenepas.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-04:00) is constant year-round.
Ponce is listed in the dataset snapshot as 4 hours behind UTC (offset -04:00). 5 hours behind London, 13 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -66.62°, Ponce's mean solar noon falls about 26 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.
Ponce 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.
Ponce 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 19 (13h 13m)
Shortest day
Dec 15 (11h 3m)
Year-round average
12h 8m
Annual swing
2h 10m
See the full daylight curve for Ponce at /sun/ponce/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Ponce local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Ponce |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 04:00 - 12:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 01:00 - 09:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 23:30 - 07:30 (next day) |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 21:00 - 05:00 (next day) |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 21:00 - 05:00 (next day) |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 20:00 - 04:00 (next day) |
Public holidays in 2026
21
Reference fields include Ponce's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 06:44:36 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Ponce (UTC-04:00, AST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:50 AM to 06:58 PM
Day length 13h 8m · Solar noon 12:24 PM
Next country holiday
Independence Day
Friday, July 3, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Ponce local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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
Code with Claude Tokyo 2026
keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Population
137.5K
Coordinates
18.01, -66.62
Timezone
America/Puerto_Rico
Indexed airports
0
Capital
San Juan
Languages
English, Spanish
Currency
USD ($)
Country area
8,870 km²
Ponce, Puerto Rico (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: America/Puerto_Rico (AST, UTC-04:00); population ~137.5K.
Coordinates: 18.01°N, 66.62°W. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~1999 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:50 AM and sets around 06:58 PM in Ponce — about 13h 8m of daylight. Puerto Rico stays on standard time here, so UTC-04:00 is stable through the year.
Bayamón (66 km from Ponce) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Puerto Rico.
Next national holiday: Independence Day, 2026-07-03.
Ponce is indexed as a America city in the PR country record, using America/Puerto_Rico as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/puerto-rico/ponce/.
Location context: 18.01°N, 66.62°W; population 137,491; nearest indexed city Bayamón is about 66 km away; closest reference hub is New York, about 2,621 km away.
Country planning context: capital San Juan; subregion Caribbean; languages English, Spanish; currency USD ($); area 8,870 km²; 0 curated airport references; next holiday Independence Day on 2026-07-03.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-04:00) is constant year-round.
Ponce is listed in the dataset snapshot as 4 hours behind UTC (offset -04:00). 5 hours behind London, 13 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -66.62°, Ponce's mean solar noon falls about 26 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.
Ponce 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.
Mid-sized city with around 137 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Ponce city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Ponce: San Juan (same time), Sydney (+14h), Tokyo (+13h), Mumbai (+9.5h), Hong Kong (+12h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
puerto-rico
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
AST
IANA Zone
America/Puerto Rico
UTC Offset
UTC-04:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
London
+5h
New York
+0h
Los Angeles
-3h
Dubai
+8h
Singapore
+12h
Tokyo
+13h
Sydney
+14h
São Paulo
+1h
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 Ponce.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Ponce: closest hubs New York (~2,621 km), São Paulo (~5,106 km), Los Angeles (~5,395 km); farthest indexed hub Singapore (~17,621 km).
Ponce sits inside Puerto Rico — the Caribbean subregion, capital San Juan, languages English, Spanish, currency USD ($).
Closest indexed cities to Ponce: Bayamón (66 km), San Juan (75 km), Carolina (82 km), Charlotte Amalie (183 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Ponce: Independence Day, Birthday of Don Luis Muñoz Rivera, Puerto Rico Constitution Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Puerto Rico.
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Ponce, 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 | +5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:44 AM | +0h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:44 AM | -3h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:44 PM | +8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:44 PM | +12h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:44 PM | +13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:44 PM | +14h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:44 AM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
Bayamón
Puerto Rico
Approx. 66 km away
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Approx. 75 km away
Carolina
Puerto Rico
Approx. 82 km away
Charlotte Amalie
U.S. Virgin Islands
Approx. 183 km away
Saint Croix
U.S. Virgin Islands
Approx. 201 km away
Road Town
British Virgin Islands
Approx. 217 km away
Santo Domingo Este
Dominican Republic
Approx. 344 km away
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Approx. 349 km away
Ponce is in the America/Puerto_Rico timezone (AST), with a UTC offset of -04:00.
Ponce does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC-04:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Ponce is UTC-04:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Ponce, 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 · 06:44 AST. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Ponce sits at 18.01°N, 66.62°W in Puerto Rico, with about 137.5K residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Ponce is New York, about 2,621 km away as the crow flies.
Bayamón is the closest indexed city, roughly 66 km from Ponce.
Independence Day is the next upcoming holiday in Puerto Rico, on Friday, July 3, 2026.
Ponce uses United States dollar (USD, symbol $) as the local currency of Puerto Rico.
The longest day of 2026 in Ponce falls on Jun 19 with about 13h 13m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 15 with 11h 3m; the year-round average is 12h 8m.
In Ponce local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 09:00-17:00; London 04:00-12:00; Frankfurt 03:00-11:00; Dubai 01:00-09:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.