What time is it in Colombia?

Colombia stays on UTC−5:00 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 5 hours behind UTC and on the same clock as New York.

Bogota 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 day is 11 hours 55 minutes long in Bogota, and holding steady — within a minute of yesterday’s. The sun peaks at 11:40 am, 20 minutes before noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Bogota sits 4 minutes of solar time east of UTC−5:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

Bogota is close enough to the equator that the solar year barely happens: the longest day of 2026 is 12 hours 23 minutes and the shortest 11 hours 51 minutes — a swing of 32 minutes across the whole year, against more than nine hours in northern Europe. There is no long summer evening here and no dark afternoon in December; sunset lands at much the same time every day.

Colombia has kept UTC−5:00 since Saturday, February 6, 1993, when it moved from UTC−4:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour ahead of what they read now.

On UTC−5:00 right now, the same clock as Colombia: