What time is it in Ecuador?

Ecuador 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.

Ecuador spans 2 time zones, so “the time in Ecuador” depends where. Each has its own page.

Guayaquil 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 12 hours 13 minutes long in Guayaquil, and holding steady — within a minute of yesterday’s. The sun peaks within a few minutes of twelve o’clock, so Ecuador’s offset fits its longitude about as closely as a whole-hour offset can.

Guayaquil is close enough to the equator that the solar year barely happens: the longest day of 2026 is 12 hours 15 minutes and the shortest 12 hours — a swing of 15 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 June; sunset lands at much the same time every day.

Ecuador has kept UTC−5:00 since Thursday, February 4, 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 Ecuador: