CayenneFrench Guiana
Current time in Cayenne, French Guiana
Thursday, 24 September 2026
French Guiana TimeUTC-03:00
⛶ Full-screen clockCayenne time at a glance
- Country
- French Guiana
- Location
- Capital city of French Guiana
- Time zone
America/Cayenne- UTC offset now
UTC-03:00- Current zone label
- GMT-3
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Cayenne time guide
Does Cayenne change its clocks?
UTC-03:00.- Year-round offset
- French Guiana Time, UTC-03:00
- Time-zone identifier
- America/Cayenne
- Cayenne and Paris
- 4 hours behind CET; 5 hours behind CEST
- Cayenne and New York
- 2 hours ahead of EST; 1 hour ahead of EDT
Commune, arrondissement and urban region
Cayenne commune is smaller than the Centre Littoral area
INSEE reports 62,675 residents in Cayenne commune in 2023 and 153,884 across the Centre Littoral intercommunal area. Matoury, Remire-Montjoly and other adjoining communes are outside Cayenne’s municipal total.
Time-zone identity for Cayenne
- IANA zone
America/Cayenne- UTC offset now
- UTC-03:00
- Current zone label
- GMT-3
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Cayenne is currently 3 hours behind UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Cayenne
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 Cayenne
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for America/Cayenne, 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 Cayenne, capital of French Guiana
Cayenne is the capital of French Guiana. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of French Guiana
- Administrative area
- Guyane, French Guiana
- Population
- 61,550
- Coordinates
- 4.9381° N, 52.3346° W. The elevation is 7 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Cayenne
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Cayenne. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- Rémire-MontjolyGuyane, French Guiana7.9 km east
America/CayenneSame local time - MatouryGuyane, French Guiana10 km south
America/CayenneSame local time - KourouGuyane, French Guiana42 km northwest
America/CayenneSame local time - Saint-Laurent-du-MaroniGuyane, French Guiana198 km west
America/CayenneSame local time - ParamariboParamaribo District, Suriname330 km west
America/ParamariboSame local time - GeorgetownDemerara-Mahaica, Guyana676 km west
America/Guyana1 hour behind
Sources for Cayenne 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.
- Territory comparison: Cayenne communeNational Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies of France · 2023 census population · AccessedOfficial municipal population and wider territorial comparisons for Cayenne.