Time difference between Lima and New York

New York is 1 hour ahead of Lima

Lima, Peru is UTC−5 · New York, the United States is UTC−5 — on standard time

The gap is not the same all year

Every converter gives one number for this pair. That number is right for most of the year and wrong for part of it, because Lima does not change its clocks and New York goes forward on the second Sunday in March and back on the first Sunday in November.

Lima stays put all year while New York moves, so the gap changes twice a year from New York's side alone. A recurring meeting set in Lima's calendar will drift by an hour without anyone touching it.

About Lima and New York

Peru is UTC−5 all year with no daylight saving, so it matches New York in winter and falls an hour behind it in summer. It shares the offset with Colombia and Ecuador, giving a large stretch of South America one fixed clock.

New York is UTC−5 in winter and UTC−4 from March to November, and it changes clocks on different weekends from Europe — a fortnight in March and a week in autumn when the transatlantic gap is an hour off what everyone expects.

When they can both be at their desks

Nine-to-five in both cities overlaps for 7 hours — 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM in Lima, the same moment as 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM in New York.

Lima to New York, hour by hour

On the usual gap of 1 hour.

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