Local time · Sint Maarten
What time is it in Sint Maarten?
5:47:02AM
- UTC offset
- UTC−4:00
- Daylight saving
- Not observed
- Time zones
- One nationwide
- Versus New York
- 1 hour ahead
Sint Maarten does not change its clocks
Sint Maarten 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.
Working with Sint Maarten from the US
Lower Princes is 1 hour ahead of New York and 4 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 10:00 am in Lower Princes.
To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.
The sun in Lower Princes today
- Sunrise
- 6:17 am
- Sunset
- 5:35 pm
- Day length
- 11 hours 19 minutes
- Solar noon
- 11:56 am
The day is 11 hours 19 minutes long in Lower Princes, and losing 1 minute a day. The sun peaks within a few minutes of twelve o’clock, so Sint Maarten’s offset fits its longitude about as closely as a whole-hour offset can.
Lower Princes lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around May 11 and July 31 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 13 hours 13 minutes and the shortest 11 hours 3 minutes, 130 minutes apart.
Sint Maarten’s offset has not moved once since 1970 — no daylight saving, and no change of zone.
Other countries
On UTC−4:00 right now, the same clock as Sint Maarten: