Current time in La Serena, Chile right now

It is 11:25 am in La Serena, Chile 🇨🇱 right now, on Sunday, September 27, 2026. The city keeps America/Santiago, which is UTC-3 at UTC-3, so La Serena is 3 hours behind of UTC, where it is 2:25 pm. The sun rose in La Serena at 7:28 am and sets at 7:44 pm, which is 12 hours 16 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in La Serena right now?

The time in La Serena, Chile is 11:25 am, 11:25 on a 24 hour clock, on Sunday September 27, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the America/Santiago rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.

La Serena sits at 29.91 degrees south and 71.25 degrees west, just outside the tropics and 3,325 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 45.0 degrees west, and the city itself is 26.3 degrees west of that line. Those 26.3 degrees are worth 105 minutes of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 1:36 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.

La Serena time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for La Serena, Chile is America/Santiago. Right now it is running at UTC-3 and the abbreviation in force is UTC-3. La Serena is on summer time at the moment, which is why the offset reads UTC-3 rather than the UTC-4 it keeps in winter.

Daylight hours in La Serena today

The sun rose in La Serena at 7:28 am and sets at 7:44 pm, which is 12 hours 16 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over La Serena, is at 1:36 pm, which is 96 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.82 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 61.9 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the north.

The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for La Serena, which works from the same coordinates.

Where La Serena is on the map

The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.

Time difference between La Serena and major cities

Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than La Serena.

Best time to call La Serena

Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.

Other cities in Chile

We cover 38 cities in Chile. These are the ones nearest to La Serena, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on America/Santiago time

37 of our cities keep America/Santiago, so every one of them reads 11:25 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as La Serena. Nearest first:

Moon phase over La Serena tonight

The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 16.5 days into its cycle and about 97% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 1:11 am Santiago time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 12:49 pm. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the La Serena clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in La Serena

The next change is on Saturday, April 3, 2027, 189 days from now, when the clocks in La Serena go back 1 hour at 11:59 pm and the offset moves from UTC-3 to UTC-4.

Two things follow from that. Any standing call with La Serena shifts by an hour on that date unless the other side moves the same weekend, and every offset printed on this page is the offset for today rather than a fixed property of the city.

How far La Serena is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to La Serena is Coquimbo, Chile at 10 km, and the furthest is Qianjiang (Chongqing), China at 19,974 km, which is 100% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of La Serena

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from La Serena, Chile and you come out at 29.91 degrees north, 108.75 degrees east. That point is near Qianjiang (Chongqing), China. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Qianjiang (Chongqing), China, 42 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 10:25 pm on Sunday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 29.91 degrees south becomes 29.91 degrees north, and 71.25 degrees west becomes 108.75 degrees east. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: La Serena is one of the exceptions, with dry land on the far side. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC+9, roughly twelve hours from La Serena, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in La Serena

Today the sun rises in La Serena at 7:28 am and sets at 7:44 pm, giving 12 hours 16 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in La Serena.

Sun and moon in La Serena today

The sun is up in La Serena for 12 hours 16 minutes today, from 7:28 am to 7:44 pm. The moon sets in La Serena at 7:44 am and comes up again at 9:00 pm. The next phase is the last quarter on October 3, 2026. The moon is full, or as near to it as makes no difference, and the whole of the face turned towards us is lit.

Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.

Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.

Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.

Prayer times in La Serena

Seven days from September 27, 2026, computed for La Serena, Chile at 29.91 degrees south, 71.25 degrees west, on the clock of America/Santiago. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.

Dhuhr is solar noon at La Serena, Chile, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.

Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.

Qibla direction from La Serena

From La Serena, Chile the qibla is 80.2 degrees on a true compass, which is east, or 9.8 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 13,141 km away, 8,166 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from La Serena, Chile to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.

The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for La Serena, Chile before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.

La Serena time now: common questions

What time is it in La Serena, Chile right now?

11:25 am on Sunday September 27, 2026. La Serena runs on UTC-3, UTC-3.

What time zone is La Serena in?

America/Santiago, currently UTC-3 at UTC-3. 37 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for La Serena?

UTC-3 at this instant. It alternates between UTC-4 and UTC-3 across the year.

Does La Serena observe daylight saving time?

Yes. The next change is April 3, 2027, when the clocks go back.

How many hours ahead or behind is La Serena of New York?

La Serena is 1 hour ahead of New York, where it is 10:25 am right now.

What time does the sun set in La Serena today?

7:44 pm, after a sunrise at 7:28 am and 12 hours 16 minutes of daylight.

What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from La Serena?

29.91 degrees north, 108.75 degrees east, near Qianjiang (Chongqing), China.

When is the best time to call La Serena from London?

Between 9:00 am and 2:00 pm in La Serena, which is 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm in London.

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