JamestownSaint Helena
Current time in Jamestown, Saint Helena
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Greenwich Mean TimeUTC+00:00
⛶ Full-screen clockJamestown time at a glance
- Country
- Saint Helena
- Location
- Capital city of Saint Helena
- Time zone
Atlantic/St_Helena- UTC offset now
UTC+00:00- Current zone label
- GMT
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Jamestown time guide
Does Jamestown change its clocks?
UTC+00:00.- Year-round offset
- Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), UTC+00:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Atlantic/St_Helena
- Jamestown and London
- Same time during GMT; 1 hour behind during BST
- Jamestown and New York
- 5 hours ahead during EST; 4 hours ahead during EDT
District, settlement and island
Jamestown district is not all of Saint Helena
Saint Helena's provisional 2021 census counted 625 residents in Jamestown district and 4,439 on the island. The district includes the capital settlement but the island total covers seven additional districts.
Time-zone identity for Jamestown
- IANA zone
Atlantic/St_Helena- UTC offset now
- UTC+00:00
- Current zone label
- GMT
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Jamestown is currently the same clock time as UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Jamestown
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 Jamestown
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Atlantic/St_Helena, 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 Jamestown, capital of Saint Helena
Jamestown is the capital of Saint Helena. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Saint Helena
- Administrative area
- Saint Helena, Saint Helena
- Population
- 637
- Coordinates
- 15.9249° S, 5.7182° W. The elevation is 10 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Jamestown
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Jamestown. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- LuandaAngola2,202 km east
Africa/Luanda1 hour ahead - São ToméSão Tomé Island, Sao Tome and Principe2,267 km northeast
Africa/Sao_TomeSame local time - AbidjanAbidjan Autonomous District, Ivory Coast2,374 km north
Africa/AbidjanSame local time - LibrevilleEstuaire, Gabon2,463 km northeast
Africa/Libreville1 hour ahead - AccraGreater Accra, Ghana2,465 km north
Africa/AccraSame local time - WindhoekKhomas Region, Namibia2,501 km east
Africa/Windhoek2 hours ahead
Sources for Jamestown 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.
- 2021 Population and Housing Census - Initial ResultsSaint Helena Statistics Office · 2021 census · AccessedOfficial provisional island and district population totals.