Bogota in numbers
- Coordinates
- 4.6097, -74.0817
- Population
- 7 674 366
- Region
- Bogota D.C.
- Country
- Colombia, South America
- Capital
- Bogotá — 0 km away
- Same name
- 10 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Bogota, Bogota D.C., Colombia
Bogota uses Colombia Time, five hours behind UTC, all year. That is the civil clock of the capital district, with no daylight saving time.
Bogota, Colombia
Friday, 4 September 2026
UTC−5 · America/Bogota
Local time in Bogota
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
The sun today
Sunrise 05:51 Solar noon 11:57 Sunset 18:02 Daylight 12 h 11 min Night 11 h 49 min Civil twilight 05:30 – 18:23
Weather in Bogota right now
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Bogota and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 111411 Los Martires — 0.7 km away
- 111711 Candelaria — 1.8 km away
- 111311 Teusaquillo — 3.0 km away
- 111611 Puente Aranda — 3.1 km away
- 111511 Antonio Nariño — 3.3 km away
- 111631 Puente Aranda — 3.7 km away
- 111321 Teusaquillo — 4.0 km away
- 111621 Puente Aranda — 4.9 km away
- 111811 Rafael Uribe Uribe — 5.1 km away
- 111821 Rafael Uribe Uribe — 5.2 km away
- 110421 San Cristobal — 5.3 km away
- 110321 Santa Fe — 5.5 km away
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Bogota D.C.
- Kennedy 979 914
- Madrid 135 000
- San Francisco 2 785
- Barrio San Luis 2 000
Other places named Bogota
- Bogota New Jersey, United States
- Bogota Huila Department, Colombia
- Bogotá Norte de Santander Department, Colombia
- Bogota San Andres y Providencia, Colombia
- Bogota Anzoátegui, Venezuela
Same time zone — America/Bogota
- Cali Colombia
- Medellin Colombia
- Barranquilla Colombia
- Kennedy Colombia
- Cartagena Colombia
- Cucuta Colombia
Nearby places
- Carmen del Sol — 6.4 km
- El Delirio — 6.8 km
- La Opata — 7.0 km
- La Victoria — 7.1 km
- Bochica — 7.3 km
- Tunjuelito — 7.4 km
What time is it in Bogota
Bogota is Colombia’s capital and a capital district, which is why this page sits under Bogota D.C. rather than under a department. Local time is Colombia Time. The IANA identifier is America/Bogota. The offset is UTC−5. Clocks do not currently spring forward.
The rest of Colombia uses the same legal hour. You do not change zones between the capital and the Caribbean coast, or between the capital and the Amazon. You do change heat, humidity, and how the Sun feels, because the district sits high in the Eastern Andes while other cities do not.
Lima currently shares UTC−5, so a Bogota–Lima conversion is often a straight copy of the digits. Eastern Time in the United States matches only in winter. When the United States uses daylight saving time, New York runs an hour ahead of Bogota. Label the capital as Colombia Time, not as EST.
Relative to Hanoi or Jakarta, Bogota is twelve hours behind. Against China Standard Time or Taipei, the gap is thirteen hours. A Bogota morning lines up with their evening. Recurring calls need a fresh look only when the other city changes its own offset.
Colombia Time in the capital district
District offices, TransMilenio, and the airports that serve the capital publish Colombia Time. The district is large, but it is one zone. A meeting in the north and a meeting in the south share the hour and do not share a commute. Write the neighborhood for the journey, not for the clock.
Set devices to America/Bogota, not to a U.S. Eastern profile. Subtract five hours from UTC all year. Name Bogota or Colombia Time on invitations that leave the country. Use this city’s sunrise; coastal cities in Colombia have different light.
When a U.S. partner “springs forward,” keep Bogota where it is and move the slot if you must. Spanish spellings use an accent: Bogotá. English pages, including this heading, often drop it. The zone does not depend on the accent. Search either way; keep America/Bogota on the machine.
Altitude can make an equatorial city feel like spring. It still cannot mint a second time zone.
High-altitude weather near the equator
Bogota sits close enough to the equator that day length changes only modestly through the year. Sunrise and sunset still move, and this page recalculates them. They assume an open horizon. Andean ridges and afternoon cloud can hide the disk after the listed time.
Height above the plateau, not a temperate latitude, is why the capital is cool for the tropics. Mornings can be chilly; afternoons can be mild; rain often arrives in spells rather than in a single northern-style winter. Weather here is not a copy of Cartagena’s and not a copy of Lima’s fog desert. It is its own reason to pack a layer and to watch the sky at the hour you booked.
Rain can flood a road and leave Colombia Time untouched. Outdoor concerts, filming, and football still need the forecast beside the Sun table. Indoor civil life needs the live clock and an honest estimate of district traffic.
The heading’s question is the numbered hour in Bogota D.C. The useful second question is whether that hour is daylight, rain, or a cold clear morning. This page’s clock answers the first. The Sun table and the day’s sky answer the second.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is Bogota in?
- Colombia Time, UTC−5, IANA name America/Bogota. The country does not currently use daylight saving time.
- Is Bogota on the same time as the Colombian coast?
- Yes, as civil time. Sunrise, heat, and rain are not the same.
- Does Bogota stay lined up with New York all year?
- No. The digits match only while U.S. Eastern Time is on standard time.