Fort-de-FranceMartinique
Current time in Fort-de-France, Martinique
Friday, 25 September 2026
Atlantic Standard TimeUTC-04:00
⛶ Full-screen clockFort-de-France time at a glance
- Country
- Martinique
- Location
- Capital city of Martinique
- Time zone
America/Martinique- UTC offset now
UTC-04:00- Current zone label
- GMT-4
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Fort-de-France time guide
Does Fort-de-France change its clocks?
UTC-04:00.- Year-round offset
- Atlantic Standard Time (AST), UTC-04:00
- Time-zone identifier
- America/Martinique
- Fort-de-France and London
- 4 hours behind during GMT; 5 hours behind during BST
- Fort-de-France and New York
- 1 hour ahead during EST; same clock time during EDT
Commune and urban area
The commune is smaller than greater Fort-de-France
INSEE counted 75,506 municipal residents in the Fort-de-France commune for 2023. Wider agglomeration figures include neighboring Martinique communes and should not be labeled as the capital commune population.
Time-zone identity for Fort-de-France
- IANA zone
America/Martinique- 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.
Fort-de-France is currently 4 hours behind UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Fort-de-France
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Thursday, 30 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Fort-de-France
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for America/Martinique, 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 Fort-de-France, capital of Martinique
Fort-de-France is the capital of Martinique. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Martinique
- Administrative area
- Martinique, Martinique
- Population
- 89,995
- Coordinates
- 14.6037° N, 61.0742° W. The elevation is 5 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Fort-de-France
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Fort-de-France. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- Le LamentinMartinique, Martinique8.1 km east
America/MartiniqueSame local time - Saint-JosephMartinique, Martinique8.4 km northeast
America/MartiniqueSame local time - DucosMartinique, Martinique11 km east
America/MartiniqueSame local time - Le RobertMartinique, Martinique16 km northeast
America/MartiniqueSame local time - Le FrançoisMartinique, Martinique18 km east
America/MartiniqueSame local time - La TrinitéMartinique, Martinique19 km northeast
America/MartiniqueSame local time
Sources for Fort-de-France 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.
- Reference population 2023 - Fort-de-France communeNational Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) · 2023 reference population · AccessedOfficial municipal, separately counted and total population figures.