What time is it in Chile?

Chile is currently on daylight saving time, UTC−3:00. The next change is Saturday, April 3, 2027, when clocks go back one hour — 12:00 am becomes 11:00 pm local time.

Chile spans 3 time zones, so “the time in Chile” depends where. Each has its own page. The IANA database lists 4 zone entries for Chile; the others are historical splits that now keep the same clock as one of these.

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

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 48 minutes long in Santiago, and gaining 2 minutes a day. The sun peaks at 1:26 pm, 86 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Santiago sits 103 minutes of solar time west of UTC−3:00’s. A full hour of that is daylight saving, which moves the clock away from the sun deliberately, and what is left over is the equation of time.

The solar year swings 4 hours 26 minutes in Santiago: 14 hours 22 minutes of daylight at the December solstice against 9 hours 56 minutes at the June one. Being south of the equator, its longest day falls in December — the opposite way round from the other hemisphere.

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