Indexed entity
Maracaibo is the maracaibo-VE record in Venezuela: country slug venezuela, city slug maracaibo, ISO VE, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Caracas.
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Live local time
Maracaibo, Venezuela
06:44:50 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · America/Caracas
Quick answer
It is currently 06:44:50 AM (VET, UTC-04:00) in Maracaibo, Venezuela — Early morning.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
28°C
Partly cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
32°C
26°C
78% rain
Wed
33°C
27°C
61% rain
Thu
32°C
26°C
77% rain
In 2 days
Corpus Christi
Thu, Jun 4, 2026
BankIn 19 days
Día de los Padres (Father's Day)
Sun, Jun 21, 2026
ObservanceIn 22 days
Aniversario de la Batalla de Carabobo (Anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo)
Wed, Jun 24, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
VES
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
06:23 AM
Sunset
07:05 PM
Day length
12h 43m
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 Maracaibo, 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
06:44:50 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
VET
America/Caracas · UTC-04:00
Next holiday
Corpus Christi
Thursday, June 4, 2026 · Bank
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Maracaibo right now
Nearest airport
CCS
Maiquetía Simón Bolívar International Airport · 505 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Venezuela
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 06:44 GMT-4
No reference-city overlap right now
Maracaibo is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC-04:00
Zone label
GMT-4
London
11:44 AM / +5h
New York
06:44 AM / +0h
Los Angeles
03:44 AM / -3h
Schedule risk
Corpus Christi on Thursday, June 4, 2026
Travel cue
CCS Maiquetía, 505 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:23 AM to 07:05 PM, with solar noon around 12:44 PM and total daylight of 12h 42m.
Mapped location
10.64°N, 71.61°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 Maracaibo.
CCS · Maiquetía Simón Bolívar International Airport
Maiquetía
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use America/Caracas 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 Maracaibo right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
Corpus Christi on Thursday, June 4, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: CCS Maiquetía, 505 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for America/Caracas. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Maracaibo has no near-term DST change in view, but Corpus Christi 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 Maracaibo.
Canonical route
/time/venezuela/maracaibo/
Catalog identity
maracaibo-VE · VE · America
Coordinate cell
10.64°N, 71.61°W · lat 10.642 · lon -71.611 · cell 1064:-7161
Population record
1,752,602 residents · country rank 2
Zone snapshot
America/Caracas · GMT-4 · UTC-04:00
January / July offsets
UTC-04:00 / UTC-04:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Barquisimeto, Venezuela · 255 km
Nearest world hub
New York · 3,352 km
Closest airport references
CCS Maiquetía 505 km
Zone peer roster
Caracas, Venezuela · Valencia, Venezuela · Barquisimeto, Venezuela
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Maracaibo: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Maracaibo is the maracaibo-VE record in Venezuela: country slug venezuela, city slug maracaibo, ISO VE, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Caracas.
10.64°N, 71.61°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 10 and longitude band -72; exact decimal pair 10.64232, -71.61089.
Venezuela: official name Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; capital Caracas; region Americas; subregion South America; country population 28,517,000; area 916,445 km²; languages Spanish; currencies VES Venezuelan bolívar soberano. This is the country layer behind the Maracaibo clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Venezuela: Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and various islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It comprises an area of 912,050 km2 (352,140 sq mi), with a population estimated at 31.8 million in 2025. The capital and largest urban agglomeration is Caracas. The continental territory is bordered on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Colombia, Brazil on the south, Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east, and on the east by Guyana. Venezuela consists of 23 states, the Capital District, and federal dependencies covering Venezuela's offshore islands. Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America; the vast majority of Venezuelans live in the cities of the north, including in the capital. Source: Wikipedia.
Barquisimeto [barquisimeto-VE, VE, America/Caracas, 255 km]; Oranjestad [oranjestad-AW, AW, America/Aruba, 271 km]; San Nicolas [san-nicolas-AW, AW, America/Aruba, 272 km]; Tanki Leendert [tanki-leendert-AW, AW, America/Aruba, 273 km]; Noord [noord-AW, AW, America/Aruba, 274 km]; Willemstad [willemstad-CW, CW, America/Curacao, 340 km]; Bandariba [bandariba-CW, CW, America/Curacao, 343 km]; Barranquilla [barranquilla-CO, CO, America/Bogota, 348 km]
Maracaibo is part of this indexed country cluster: Caracas [caracas-VE, America/Caracas, pop 3,000,000]; Maracaibo [maracaibo-VE, America/Caracas, pop 1,752,602]; Valencia [valencia-VE, America/Caracas, pop 1,619,470]; Barquisimeto [barquisimeto-VE, America/Caracas, pop 1,240,714].
New York 3,352 km; São Paulo 4,673 km; Los Angeles 5,394 km; London 7,805 km; Dubai 13,017 km; Tokyo 13,908 km; Sydney 14,961 km; Singapore 18,589 km
CCS Maiquetía Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía [VE, 505 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include CCS Maiquetía Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía [VE].
Maracaibo renders Jun 2, 2026 · 06:44 GMT-4; GMT-4 at UTC-04:00; January UTC-04:00; July UTC-04:00; next holiday Corpus Christi on 2026-06-04.
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 Maracaibo.
Maracaibo is a manual-dossier city; rank #2 of 4 retained Venezuela city pages. The route is /time/venezuela/maracaibo/ and the city id is maracaibo-VE.
Maracaibo has 16 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.
Maracaibo is pinned at 10.64°N, 71.61°W; Barquisimeto (255 km); New York (3,352 km).
America/Caracas resolves to stable UTC-04:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Venezuela.
CCS Maiquetía Simón Bolívar International Airport (505 km) · Corpus Christi (Thursday, June 4, 2026) · 1 country airport reference · 34 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Maracaibo 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.
Maracaibo: Maracaibo is a city and municipality in northwestern Venezuela, located on the western shore of the strait that connects Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela. It is the capital of Zulia and is the second-largest city proper in Venezuela, after the national capital, Caracas. The city has an estimated population of 1,752,602, with the metropolitan area estimated at 2,727,957 as of 2019. Maracaibo is commonly nicknamed "Spanish: La Tierra del Sol Amada".
Venezuela returned to UTC-4 on May 1 2016 after eight years at UTC-4:30, a unique offset adopted in 2007.
Venezuela returned to UTC-4 on May 1 2016 after eight years at UTC-4:30, a unique offset adopted in 2007.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-04:00) is constant year-round.
Maracaibo 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 -71.61°, Maracaibo's mean solar noon falls about 46 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.
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 14 (12h 45m)
Shortest day
Dec 14 (11h 30m)
Year-round average
12h 8m
Annual swing
1h 15m
See the full daylight curve for Maracaibo at /sun/maracaibo/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Maracaibo local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Maracaibo |
|---|---|---|
| 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
34
Maracaibo is the second-largest city in Venezuela and the capital of Zulia State, with a population of about 1.75 million in the city and a larger metropolitan area in the northwest of the country. Venezuela Time (VET, UTC-4) is fixed year-round; the country reverted to UTC-4 in 2016 after eight years on a UTC-4:30 offset, and it observes no daylight saving. Maracaibo lies on the western shore of Lake Maracaibo, the largest lake in South America, where the discovery of oil in the early 20th century turned the region into the heart of Venezuela's petroleum industry. The Rafael Urdaneta Bridge spanning the lake's narrow strait is one of the longest bridges in Latin America.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Maracaibo's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 06:44:50 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Maracaibo (UTC-04:00, VET).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:23 AM to 07:05 PM
Day length 12h 42m · Solar noon 12:44 PM
Next country holiday
Corpus Christi
Thursday, June 4, 2026 · Bank
Tracked countdowns rendered for Maracaibo 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
1.8M
Coordinates
10.64, -71.61
Timezone
America/Caracas
Indexed airports
1
Capital
Caracas
Languages
Spanish
Currency
VES (Bs.S.)
Country area
916,445 km²
Maracaibo, Venezuela (population rank #2 in this dataset). Time zone: America/Caracas (VET, UTC-04:00); population ~1.8M.
Coordinates: 10.64°N, 71.61°W. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~1181 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:23 AM and sets around 07:05 PM in Maracaibo — about 12h 42m of daylight. Venezuela stays on standard time here, so UTC-04:00 is stable through the year.
Barquisimeto (255 km from Maracaibo) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Venezuela.
Next national holiday: Corpus Christi, 2026-06-04.
Maracaibo is indexed as a America city in the VE country record, using America/Caracas as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/venezuela/maracaibo/.
Location context: 10.64°N, 71.61°W; population 1,752,602; nearest indexed city Barquisimeto is about 255 km away; closest reference hub is New York, about 3,352 km away.
Country planning context: capital Caracas; subregion South America; languages Spanish; currency VES (Bs.S.); area 916,445 km²; 1 curated airport references; next holiday Corpus Christi on 2026-06-04.
Venezuela returned to UTC-4 on May 1 2016 after eight years at UTC-4:30, a unique offset adopted in 2007.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-04:00) is constant year-round.
Maracaibo 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 -71.61°, Maracaibo's mean solar noon falls about 46 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.
Maracaibo sits at 10.64°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.
Major metropolitan area with around 1.8 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Maracaibo: Caracas (same time), Sydney (+14h), Tokyo (+13h), Lagos (+5h), Ho Chi Minh City (+11h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
venezuela
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
VET
IANA Zone
America/Caracas
UTC Offset
UTC-04:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC-04:00
Brazil, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Canada, Montserrat, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Martinique, Saint Lucia
Other cities in this timezone
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 Maracaibo.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Maracaibo: closest hubs New York (~3,352 km), São Paulo (~4,673 km), Los Angeles (~5,394 km); farthest indexed hub Singapore (~18,589 km).
Maracaibo sits inside Venezuela — the South America subregion, capital Caracas, languages Spanish, currency VES (Bs.S.).
Closest indexed cities to Maracaibo: Barquisimeto (255 km), Oranjestad (271 km), San Nicolas (272 km), Tanki Leendert (273 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Maracaibo: Corpus Christi, Father's Day, Anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Venezuela.
Closest curated airport references from Maracaibo: CCS Maiquetía (505 km).
Maiquetía Simón Bolívar International AirportCCS
Maiquetía · 505 km from Maracaibo
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 24m
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 |
Maracaibo is in the America/Caracas timezone (VET), with a UTC offset of -04:00.
Maracaibo 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 Maracaibo is UTC-04:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Maracaibo, 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 GMT-4. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Maracaibo sits at 10.64°N, 71.61°W in Venezuela, with about 1.8M residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Maracaibo is New York, about 3,352 km away as the crow flies.
Barquisimeto is the closest indexed city, roughly 255 km from Maracaibo.
Maiquetía Simón Bolívar International Airport (CCS) is the closest curated airport reference, about 505 km from Maracaibo.
Corpus Christi is the next upcoming holiday in Venezuela, on Thursday, June 4, 2026.
Maracaibo uses Venezuelan bolívar soberano (VES, symbol Bs.S.) as the local currency of Venezuela.
The longest day of 2026 in Maracaibo falls on Jun 14 with about 12h 45m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 14 with 11h 30m; the year-round average is 12h 8m.
In Maracaibo 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.