What time is it in Puerto Rico?

Puerto Rico stays on UTC−4:00 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 4 hours behind UTC, and 1 hour ahead of New York.

Puerto Rico is 1 hour ahead of New York and 4 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 10:00 am in Puerto Rico.

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 17 minutes long in Puerto Rico, and losing 1 minute a day. The sun peaks at 12:08 pm, 8 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Puerto Rico sits 24 minutes of solar time west of UTC−4:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

Puerto Rico lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around May 13 and July 30 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 13 hours 14 minutes and the shortest 11 hours 1 minute, 133 minutes apart.

Puerto Rico’s offset has not moved once since 1970 — no daylight saving, and no change of zone.

On UTC−4:00 right now, the same clock as Puerto Rico: