Lima in numbers
- Coordinates
- -12.0432, -77.0282
- Population
- 7 737 002
- Region
- Lima Province
- Country
- Peru, South America
- Capital
- Lima — 14 km away
- Same name
- 71 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Lima, Lima Province, Peru
Lima Province keeps Peru Time, UTC−5, all year. That is the capital’s own provincial clock, the same civil hour used in the rest of Peru.
Lima, Peru
Friday, 4 September 2026
UTC−5 · America/Lima
Local time in Lima
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
The sun today
Sunrise 06:11 Solar noon 12:09 Sunset 18:06 Daylight 11 h 55 min Night 12 h 05 min Civil twilight 05:50 – 18:27
Weather in Lima right now
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Lima and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 02250
- 04185
- 13620
- 15001
- 15003
- 15004
- 15006
- 15018
- 15019
- 15046
- 15072
- 15079
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.
Other places named Lima
- Lima Lima region, Peru
- Lima Ohio, United States
- Lima Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Lima San Pedro Department, Paraguay
- Lima Pennsylvania, United States
Same time zone — America/Lima
Nearby places
- Lince — 4.8 km
- Chinchon — 5.8 km
- San Francisco De Borja — 6.0 km
- Limatambo — 6.3 km
- Urbanización Jacaranda — 6.4 km
- Orrantia — 6.7 km
What time is it in Lima
This page is Lima as a province: the capital’s urban core and its districts, not the wider coastal department that also uses the name. Local time remains Peru Time. The IANA zone is America/Lima. There is no extra municipal offset and no seasonal jump.
Districts from the historic center to the shore share the numbered hour. Moving from one district to another changes traffic and microclimate, not the zone. If a clock in a shop disagrees with your phone, one of them is set incorrectly. The province has not invented a second time.
Eastern Time in the United States is UTC−5 in winter and UTC−4 in summer. That is the trap. A New York calendar that says “same as Lima” is true only while Eastern Time is on standard time. When the United States springs forward, Lima stays put, and the comfortable alignment breaks by one hour.
Write America/Lima or Peru Time on anything that will be copied into a foreign calendar. Do not write “EST” as a shortcut. EST is someone else’s winter name, and it will betray you in their summer.
The capital province’s civil day
City and provincial offices, courts, and most businesses post hours in Peru Time. Last entry is often earlier than the posted close. A coastal fog delay on the airport road does not move the close; it only spends the minutes you thought you had.
Use Peru Time, not Eastern Time, even when the winter digits match. Keep UTC−5 through the year; Lima will not add an hour in December. Name the district if the meeting is in person. The hour will match; the traffic will not.
Read this page’s sunrise for the provincial capital, not for the Andes. Refresh government and airport notices on the day, in the same zone. Callao is a separate constitutional province beside Lima and keeps the same Peru Time. The airport that serves the capital sits in that neighbor. You do not change clocks in the taxi. You do change which authority posted the hours on the door.
Sharing a winter hour with New York is not the same as borrowing New York’s daylight-saving law.
Fog, glare, and planning outdoors
Sunrise and sunset are calculated for Lima’s location. In the cooler months, a low grey layer can postpone useful light long after the geometric sunrise. In clearer stretches, glare off pale walls and the sea can be harsh soon after the Sun is up. Neither case is a change of zone.
The province is arid by climate, not by feel on a foggy morning. Humidity can be high while rain stays rare. Outdoor work needs a forecast for visibility as much as a Sun table. Indoor work needs the live clock and a realistic travel time between districts.
Because Lima is in the southern hemisphere, the longest days fall in the opposite part of the year from Europe and the northern United States. If you copy a “start after sunrise” habit from a northern calendar, check the local table. The habit travels. The minutes do not.
The live clock answers civil time in the province. The Sun table answers geometry. The forecast answers whether you will see either the disk or the other side of the avenue. Use all three for anything that is not a windowless room.
Questions and answers
- What time zone does Lima Province use?
- Peru Time, UTC−5, America/Lima, with no daylight saving time in current use.
- Is Lima on Eastern Time?
- Only the winter digits sometimes match. Do not label Lima as EST or EDT.
- Do I change clocks on the way to the airport?
- No. Callao and Lima Province share Peru Time.