What time is it in Nicaragua?

Nicaragua stays on UTC−6:00 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 6 hours behind UTC, and 1 hour behind New York.

Managua is 1 hour behind New York and 2 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 8:00 am in Managua.

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 35 minutes long in Managua, and holding steady — within a minute of yesterday’s. The sun peaks at 11:29 am, 31 minutes before noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Managua sits 15 minutes of solar time east of UTC−6:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

Managua lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around April 21 and August 20 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 12 hours 50 minutes and the shortest 11 hours 25 minutes, 86 minutes apart.

Nicaragua has kept UTC−6:00 since Sunday, October 1, 2006, when it moved from UTC−5:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour ahead of what they read now.

On UTC−6:00 right now, the same clock as Nicaragua: