Current time in Leon, Nicaragua right now
It is 11:33 am in Leon, Nicaragua 🇳🇮 right now, on Sunday, September 27, 2026. The city keeps America/Managua, which is CST at UTC-6, so Leon is 6 hours behind of UTC, where it is 5:33 pm. The sun rose in Leon at 5:37 am and sets at 5:40 pm, which is 12 hours 3 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Leon right now?
The time in Leon, Nicaragua is 11:33 am, 11:33 on a 24 hour clock, on Sunday September 27, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the America/Managua rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Leon sits at 12.44 degrees north and 86.88 degrees west, inside the tropics, north of the equator and 1,383 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 90.0 degrees west, and the city itself is 3.1 degrees east of that line. Those 3.1 degrees are worth 12 minutes 29 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 11:38 am rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Leon time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Leon, Nicaragua is America/Managua. Right now it is running at UTC-6 and the abbreviation in force is CST. Leon does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC-6 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Leon ever needs a seasonal footnote.
Daylight hours in Leon today
The sun rose in Leon at 5:37 am and sets at 5:40 pm, which is 12 hours 3 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Leon, is at 11:38 am, which is 22 minutes before clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.84 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 75.7 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Leon |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 5:37 am |
| Sunset | 5:40 pm |
| Solar noon | 11:38 am |
| Day length | 12 hours 3 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 5:12 pm to 5:53 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 6:01 pm |
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 Leon, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Leon 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.
An interactive map of Leon. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Leon on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Leon 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 Leon.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Leon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 10:33 am | -1 | 1 hour behind of Leon |
| Chicago, Illinois | 12:33 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Leon |
| New York, New York | 1:33 pm | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Leon |
| Toronto, Canada | 1:33 pm | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Leon |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 2:33 pm | +3 | 3 hours ahead of Leon |
| London, United Kingdom | 6:33 pm | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Leon |
| Paris, France | 7:33 pm | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Leon |
| Berlin, Germany | 7:33 pm | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Leon |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 7:33 pm | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Leon |
| Moscow, Russia | 8:33 pm | +9 | 9 hours ahead of Leon |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 9:33 pm | +10 | 10 hours ahead of Leon |
| Delhi, India | 11:03 pm | +11:30 | 11 hours 30 minutes ahead of Leon |
| Singapore, Singapore | 1:33 am | +14 | 14 hours ahead of Leon |
| Hong Kong, China | 1:33 am | +14 | 14 hours ahead of Leon |
| Tokyo, Japan | 2:33 am | +15 | 15 hours ahead of Leon |
| Sydney, Australia | 3:33 am | +16 | 16 hours ahead of Leon |
Best time to call Leon
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.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Leon | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | +2 | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm |
| Los Angeles | -1 | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm |
| London | +7 | 9:00 am to 11:00 am | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Delhi | +11:30 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| Sydney | +16 | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 10:00 am |
Other cities in Nicaragua
We cover 5 cities in Nicaragua. These are the ones nearest to Leon, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinandega | Chinandega Department | 11:33 am | UTC-6 |
| Managua | Managua Department | 11:33 am | UTC-6 |
| Masaya | Masaya Department | 11:33 am | UTC-6 |
| Matagalpa | Matagalpa Department | 11:33 am | UTC-6 |
Cities on America/Managua time
5 of our cities keep America/Managua, so every one of them reads 11:33 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Leon. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Leon |
|---|---|---|
| Chinandega, Nicaragua | 11:33 am | 35 km |
| Managua, Nicaragua | 11:33 am | 76 km |
| Masaya, Nicaragua | 11:33 am | 99 km |
| Matagalpa, Nicaragua | 11:33 am | 118 km |
Moon phase over Leon tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 16.6 days into its cycle and about 96% lit. The next full moon falls on October 25, 2026 at 10:11 pm Managua time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 9:49 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Leon clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Leon
There is no clock change scheduled in America/Managua within the next 400 days, so Leon stays at UTC-6 for the whole of that stretch.
That makes Leon an easy city to schedule against: a meeting fixed at a given hour here holds its relationship to UTC all year, and only the other end of the call can move.
How far Leon is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Leon is Chinandega, Nicaragua at 35 km, and the furthest is Bengkulu, Indonesia at 18,625 km, which is 93% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinandega, Nicaragua | 35 | 22 | north west | 11:33 am |
| Managua, Nicaragua | 76 | 47 | south east | 11:33 am |
| Masaya, Nicaragua | 99 | 62 | south east | 11:33 am |
| Matagalpa, Nicaragua | 118 | 73 | north east | 11:33 am |
| Danli, Honduras | 181 | 112 | north | 11:33 am |
| San Miguel, El Salvador | 183 | 114 | north west | 11:33 am |
| Tegucigalpa, Honduras | 186 | 116 | north | 11:33 am |
| Siguatepeque, Honduras | 261 | 162 | north west | 11:33 am |
| Soyapango, El Salvador | 283 | 176 | north west | 11:33 am |
| San Salvador, El Salvador | 286 | 178 | north west | 11:33 am |
The antipode of Leon
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Leon, Nicaragua and you come out at 12.44 degrees south, 93.12 degrees east. That point is in the Indian Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Bengkulu, Indonesia, 1,390 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 12:33 am on Monday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 12.44 degrees north becomes 12.44 degrees south, and 86.88 degrees west becomes 93.12 degrees east. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Leon is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC+6, roughly twelve hours from Leon, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Leon
Today the sun rises in Leon at 5:37 am and sets at 5:40 pm, giving 12 hours 3 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 Leon.
Hourly forecast for Leon
The next 12 hours, in Leon local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 11 AM 29°C 84°F Rain 9 km/h 0.6 mm
- 12 PM 28°C 83°F Light rain 8 km/h 0.2 mm
- 1 PM 29°C 83°F Light rain showers 8 km/h 0.2 mm
- 2 PM 29°C 84°F Heavy rain showers 13 km/h 1.5 mm
- 3 PM 28°C 82°F Rain 11 km/h 0.3 mm
- 4 PM 27°C 81°F Cloudy 9 km/h
- 5 PM 27°C 81°F Cloudy 6 km/h
- 6 PM 26°C 79°F Rain 7 km/h 0.3 mm
- 7 PM 25°C 77°F Rain 11 km/h 0.3 mm
- 8 PM 25°C 77°F Partly cloudy 6 km/h
- 9 PM 25°C 77°F Rain 13 km/h 0.3 mm
- 10 PM 24°C 76°F Light rain 12 km/h 0.1 mm
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Leon
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 26 Sep | 26°C / 80°F | 26°C / 78°F | Rain | 1.3 mm |
| Sun 27 Sep | 29°C / 84°F | 24°C / 75°F | Light rain | 7.4 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 30°C / 87°F | 24°C / 74°F | Rain showers | 7.5 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 32°C / 89°F | 23°C / 74°F | Heavy rain | 13.6 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 29°C / 85°F | 24°C / 75°F | Heavy rain | 23.3 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 28°C / 82°F | 24°C / 74°F | Rain showers | 11.0 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 30°C / 86°F | 24°C / 75°F | Heavy rain | 16.6 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Leon today
The sun is up in Leon for 12 hours 3 minutes today, from 5:37 am to 5:40 pm. The moon sets in Leon at 6:18 am and comes up again at 6:24 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.
| Sun | Time in Leon |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 4:26 am |
| Nautical dawn | 4:51 am |
| Civil dawn | 5:15 am |
| Sunrise | 5:37 am |
| Solar noon | 11:38 am |
| Sunset | 5:40 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:01 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:26 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 6:50 pm |
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.
| Light band | Time in Leon | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:15 am to 5:24 am | 0h 08m |
| Morning golden hour | 5:24 am to 6:05 am | 0h 41m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:12 pm to 5:53 pm | 0h 41m |
| Evening blue hour | 5:53 pm to 6:01 pm | 0h 08m |
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.
| Moon | Reading in Leon |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:24 pm |
| Moonset | 6:18 am |
| Phase | waning gibbous, waning |
| Illumination | 99% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 16.6 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 375,700 km |
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.
Meeting planner: Leon and four other places
Every hour of Sunday, September 27, 2026 in Leon, Nicaragua, read across 4 other places. Columns are Leon local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
Change the places or the date
| Leon local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LeonCST UTC-6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPDT UTC-7 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 | 1+1 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 | 1+1 | 2+1 | 3+1 | 4+1 | 5+1 | 6+1 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 0:30+1 | 1:30+1 | 2:30+1 | 3:30+1 | 4:30+1 | 5:30+1 | 6:30+1 | 7:30+1 | 8:30+1 | 9:30+1 | 10:30+1 |
No hour on Sunday, September 27, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Delhi are 12 hours 30 minutes apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 9:00 am in Leon it is working hours in Leon, New York and London, but outside them in Los Angeles and Delhi. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Leon
Seven days from September 27, 2026, computed for Leon, Nicaragua at 12.44 degrees north, 86.88 degrees west, on the clock of America/Managua. 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.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday September 27 | 4:26 am | 5:37 am | 11:38 am | 2:58 pm | 5:40 pm | 6:46 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 4:26 am | 5:37 am | 11:38 am | 2:57 pm | 5:39 pm | 6:46 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 4:26 am | 5:37 am | 11:38 am | 2:57 pm | 5:39 pm | 6:45 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 4:26 am | 5:37 am | 11:37 am | 2:57 pm | 5:38 pm | 6:44 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 4:26 am | 5:37 am | 11:37 am | 2:57 pm | 5:37 pm | 6:44 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 4:26 am | 5:37 am | 11:37 am | 2:57 pm | 5:37 pm | 6:43 pm |
| Saturday October 3 | 4:26 am | 5:37 am | 11:36 am | 2:56 pm | 5:36 pm | 6:42 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Leon, Nicaragua, 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 Leon
From Leon, Nicaragua the qibla is 57.4 degrees on a true compass, which is east-northeast, or 32.6 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 13,087 km away, 8,132 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Leon, Nicaragua 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 Leon, Nicaragua 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.
Put a Leon clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Leon, Nicaragua, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads America/Managua from the time zone database, so it stays right when Leon changes its clocks, and it shows CST to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
The box needs 183 pixels of height for these settings, which is what the code above sets, and the numbers show at full size from 305 pixels of width up. Narrower than that they scale down rather than wrapping, and turning a line off makes the box shorter. The code updates with either.
Leon time now: common questions
- What time is it in Leon, Nicaragua right now?
- 11:33 am on Sunday September 27, 2026. Leon runs on CST, UTC-6.
- What time zone is Leon in?
- America/Managua, currently CST at UTC-6. 5 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Leon?
- UTC-6 at this instant. It is UTC-6 all year round, with no seasonal change.
- Does Leon observe daylight saving time?
- No. Leon stays on UTC-6 for the whole year.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Leon of New York?
- Leon is 2 hours behind of New York, where it is 1:33 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Leon today?
- 5:40 pm, after a sunrise at 5:37 am and 12 hours 3 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Leon?
- 12.44 degrees south, 93.12 degrees east, in the Indian Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Leon from London?
- Between 9:00 am and 11:00 am in Leon, which is 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm in London.
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