Road TownBritish Virgin Islands
Current time in Road Town, British Virgin Islands
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Atlantic Standard TimeUTC-04:00
⛶ Full-screen clockRoad Town time at a glance
- Country
- British Virgin Islands
- Location
- Capital city of British Virgin Islands
- Time zone
America/Tortola- UTC offset now
UTC-04:00- Current zone label
- GMT-4
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Road Town time guide
Does Road Town change its clocks?
UTC-04:00.- Year-round offset
- Atlantic Standard Time (AST), UTC-04:00
- Time-zone identifier
- America/Tortola
- Road Town and London
- 4 hours behind during GMT; 5 hours behind during BST
- Road Town and New York
- 1 hour ahead during EST; same clock time during EDT
Town, Tortola and territory
Road Town is not the whole of Tortola
The Virgin Islands Central Statistics Office publishes census and territory statistics from Road Town. Territory-wide or Tortola population figures include multiple settlements and cannot be used as a direct Road Town count without a locality boundary.
Time-zone identity for Road Town
- IANA zone
America/Tortola- 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.
Road Town is currently 4 hours behind UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Road Town
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 Road Town
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for America/Tortola, 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 Road Town, capital of British Virgin Islands
Road Town is the capital of British Virgin Islands. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of British Virgin Islands
- Administrative area
- British Virgin Islands
- Population
- 8,449
- Coordinates
- 18.4269° N, 64.6208° W. The elevation is 9 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Road Town
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Road Town. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- Charlotte AmalieSaint Thomas Island, U.S. Virgin Islands34 km west
America/St_ThomasSame local time - San JuanPuerto Rico157 km west
America/Puerto_RicoSame local time - The ValleyAnguilla167 km east
America/AnguillaSame local time - MarigotSaint Martin167 km east
America/MarigotSame local time - PhilipsburgSint Maarten172 km east
America/Lower_PrincesSame local time - GustaviaSaint Barthelemy196 km east
America/St_BarthelemySame local time
Sources for Road Town 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.
- Central Statistics OfficeGovernment of the Virgin Islands · Official current statistics portal · AccessedOfficial source for Virgin Islands census and population statistics.