What time is it in Argentina?

Argentina stays on UTC−3:00 all year. Its offset from UTC never moves, so its relationship to places that do change shifts twice a year instead — which is usually why someone checks. Right now it is 3 hours behind UTC, and 2 hours ahead of New York.

Buenos Aires is 2 hours ahead of New York and 5 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 11:00 am in Buenos Aires.

To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.

The day is 13 hours 53 minutes long in Buenos Aires, and gaining 2 minutes a day. The sun peaks at 12:38 pm, 38 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Buenos Aires sits 54 minutes of solar time west of UTC−3:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

The solar year swings 4 hours 38 minutes in Buenos Aires: 14 hours 28 minutes of daylight at the December solstice against 9 hours 50 minutes at the June one. Being south of the equator, its longest day falls in December — the opposite way round from the other hemisphere.

Argentina has kept UTC−3:00 since Saturday, March 14, 2009, when it moved from UTC−2:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour ahead of what they read now.

On UTC−3:00 right now, the same clock as Argentina: