Local time · Bahamas
What time is it in Bahamas?
4:46:51AM
- UTC offset
- UTC−5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not right now
- Time zones
- One nationwide
- Versus New York
- Same time
Bahamas observes daylight saving
Bahamas is currently on standard time, UTC−5:00. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when clocks go forward one hour — 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Working with Bahamas from the US
Nassau is on the same clock as New York right now, so a time in one is the same time in the other.
To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.
The sun in Nassau today
- Sunrise
- 6:24 am
- Sunset
- 5:22 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 57 minutes
- Solar noon
- 11:53 am
The day is 10 hours 57 minutes long in Nassau, and losing 1 minute a day. The sun peaks within a few minutes of twelve o’clock, so Bahamas’s offset fits its longitude about as closely as a whole-hour offset can.
The solar year swings 3 hours 7 minutes in Nassau: 13 hours 42 minutes of daylight at the June solstice against 10 hours 35 minutes at the December one. Being north of the equator, its longest day falls in June — the opposite way round from the other hemisphere.
Other countries
On UTC−5:00 right now, the same clock as Bahamas: