What time is it in Liberia?

Liberia stays on UTC+0:00 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 on UTC, and 5 hours ahead of New York.

Monrovia is 5 hours ahead of New York and 8 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 2:00 pm in Monrovia.

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 51 minutes long in Monrovia, and holding steady — within a minute of yesterday’s. The sun peaks at 12:27 pm, 27 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Monrovia sits 43 minutes of solar time west of UTC+0:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

Monrovia lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around April 5 and September 6 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 12 hours 29 minutes and the shortest 11 hours 45 minutes, 44 minutes apart.

Liberia has kept UTC+0:00 since Friday, January 7, 1972, when it moved from UTC−0:44.5. Before that its clocks read 44.5 minutes behind what they read now.

On UTC+0:00 right now, the same clock as Liberia: