GeorgetownGuyana
Current time in Georgetown, Guyana
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Guyana TimeUTC-04:00
⛶ Full-screen clockGeorgetown time at a glance
- Country
- Guyana
- Location
- Capital city of Guyana
- Time zone
America/Guyana- UTC offset now
UTC-04:00- Current zone label
- GMT-4
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Georgetown time guide
Does Georgetown change its clocks?
UTC-04:00.- Year-round offset
- Guyana Time (GYT), UTC-04:00
- Time-zone identifier
- America/Guyana
- Georgetown and London
- 4 hours behind during GMT; 5 hours behind during BST
- Georgetown and New York
- 1 hour ahead during EST; same clock time during EDT
Capital city and census geography
Georgetown is within Demerara-Mahaica
Guyana's census reporting places Georgetown within Demerara-Mahaica, also known as Region 4. Regional totals include communities outside the capital, so they should not be labeled as Georgetown's city population.
Time-zone identity for Georgetown
- IANA zone
America/Guyana- UTC offset now
- UTC-04:00
- Current zone label
- GMT-4
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Georgetown is currently 4 hours behind UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Georgetown
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 Georgetown
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for America/Guyana, 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 Georgetown, capital of Guyana
Georgetown is the capital of Guyana. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Guyana
- Administrative area
- Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana
- Population
- 235,017
- Coordinates
- 6.8045° N, 58.1553° W. The elevation is 3 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Georgetown
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Georgetown. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- LindenUpper Demerara-Berbice, Guyana90 km south
America/GuyanaSame local time - New AmsterdamEast Berbice-Corentyne, Guyana94 km southeast
America/GuyanaSame local time - ParamariboParamaribo District, Suriname346 km east
America/Paramaribo1 hour ahead - Port of SpainTrinidad and Tobago567 km northwest
America/Port_of_SpainSame local time - CayenneGuyane, French Guiana676 km east
America/Cayenne1 hour ahead - Saint George'sSaint George Parish, Grenada704 km northwest
America/GrenadaSame local time
Sources for Georgetown 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.
- 2012 Population and Housing Census: Preliminary ReportBureau of Statistics Guyana · 2012 census · AccessedOfficial census geography and regional population reporting.