BogotáColombia
Current time in Bogotá, Colombia
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Colombia Standard TimeUTC-05:00
⛶ Full-screen clockBogotá time at a glance
- Country
- Colombia
- Location
- Capital city of Colombia
- Time zone
America/Bogota- UTC offset now
UTC-05:00- Current zone label
- GMT-5
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Bogotá time guide
Does Bogotá change its clocks?
UTC-05:00.- Year-round offset
- Colombia Time, UTC-05:00
- Time-zone identifier
- America/Bogota
- Bogotá and London
- 5 hours behind GMT; 6 hours behind BST
- Bogotá and New York
- Same clock time during EST; 1 hour behind during EDT
Capital District and localities
Bogotá D.C. contains multiple statistical localities
DANE publishes population projections for Bogotá D.C. and breaks them down by locality and smaller planning units. A district-wide figure covers all of those localities and should not be treated as a count for only the historic center.
Time-zone identity for Bogotá
- IANA zone
America/Bogota- UTC offset now
- UTC-05:00
- Current zone label
- GMT-5
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Bogotá is currently 5 hours behind UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Bogotá
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Wednesday, 29 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Bogotá
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for America/Bogota, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Capital city context
About Bogotá, capital of Colombia
Bogotá is the capital of Colombia. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Colombia
- Administrative area
- Bogota D.C., Colombia
- Population
- 7,674,366
- Coordinates
- 4.6097° N, 74.0817° W. The elevation is 2,582 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Bogotá
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Bogotá. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- KennedyBogota D.C., Colombia7.2 km west
America/BogotaSame local time - SoachaCundinamarca, Colombia15 km west
America/BogotaSame local time - FunzaCundinamarca, Colombia19 km northwest
America/BogotaSame local time - MosqueraCundinamarca, Colombia20 km northwest
America/BogotaSame local time - CotaCundinamarca, Colombia22 km north
America/BogotaSame local time - SibatéCundinamarca, Colombia24 km southwest
America/BogotaSame local time
Sources for Bogotá time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 4 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.
- Population projections for BogotáNational Administrative Department of Statistics of Colombia · Official projections through 2035 · AccessedDistrict, locality and planning-unit population projections for Bogotá.