LimaPeru
Lima time at a glance
- Country
- Peru
- Location
- Capital city of Peru
- Time zone
America/Lima- UTC offset now
UTC-05:00- Current zone label
- GMT-5
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Lima time guide
Does Lima change its clocks?
UTC-05:00.- Year-round offset
- Peru Time (PET), UTC-05:00
- Time-zone identifier
- America/Lima
- Lima and London
- 5 hours behind during GMT; 6 hours behind during BST
- Lima and New York
- Same clock time during EST; 1 hour behind during EDT
Province, region and metropolitan area
Lima Province is distinct from the surrounding Lima Region
Peru's 2017 census counted 8,574,974 residents in Lima Province, which contains 43 districts. The separate Lima Region and neighboring Callao should remain explicit when defining metropolitan totals.
Time-zone identity for Lima
- IANA zone
America/Lima- 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.
Lima is currently 5 hours behind UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Lima
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 Lima
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for America/Lima, 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 Lima, capital of Peru
Lima is the capital of Peru. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Peru
- Administrative area
- Lima Province, Peru
- Population
- 7,737,002
- Coordinates
- 12.0432° S, 77.0282° W. The elevation is 152 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Lima
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Lima. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- BreñaLima region, Peru3 km southwest
America/LimaSame local time - Jesus MariaLima region, Peru3.5 km southwest
America/LimaSame local time - Santa Anita - Los FicusLima region, Peru6 km east
America/LimaSame local time - San Francisco De BorjaLima region, Peru6 km southeast
America/LimaSame local time - San IsidroLima region, Peru6.1 km south
America/LimaSame local time - Carmen De La Legua ReynosoCallao, Peru7.7 km west
America/LimaSame local time
Sources for Lima 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.
- 2017 National Census population resultsNational Institute of Statistics and Informatics Peru (INEI) · 2017 census · AccessedOfficial population totals for Lima Province, Lima Region and Callao.