Time difference between New York and Lima

Lima is 1 hour behind New York

New York, the United States is UTC−5 · Lima, Peru 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 New York goes forward on the second Sunday in March and back on the first Sunday in November and Lima does not change its clocks.

Lima stays put all year while New York moves, so a meeting fixed in Lima's calendar shifts by an hour twice a year at New York's end.

About New York and Lima

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.

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.

When they can both be at their desks

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

New York to Lima, hour by hour

On the usual gap of 1 hour.

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