Current time in New Kingston, Jamaica right now
It is 11:20 am in New Kingston, Jamaica 🇯🇲 right now, on Sunday, September 27, 2026. The city keeps America/Jamaica, which is EST at UTC-5, so New Kingston is 5 hours behind of UTC, where it is 4:20 pm. The sun rose in New Kingston at 5:57 am and sets at 5:59 pm, which is 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in New Kingston right now?
The time in New Kingston, Jamaica is 11:20 am, 11:20 on a 24 hour clock, on Sunday September 27, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the America/Jamaica rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
New Kingston sits at 18.01 degrees north and 76.78 degrees west, inside the tropics, north of the equator and 2,002 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 75.0 degrees west, and the city itself is 1.8 degrees west of that line. Those 1.8 degrees are worth 7 minutes 8 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 11:58 am rather than on the stroke of twelve.
New Kingston time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for New Kingston, Jamaica is America/Jamaica. Right now it is running at UTC-5 and the abbreviation in force is EST. New Kingston does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC-5 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving New Kingston ever needs a seasonal footnote.
Daylight hours in New Kingston today
The sun rose in New Kingston at 5:57 am and sets at 5:59 pm, which is 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over New Kingston, is at 11:58 am, which is 2 minutes before clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.83 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 70.2 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in New Kingston |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 5:57 am |
| Sunset | 5:59 pm |
| Solar noon | 11:58 am |
| Day length | 12 hours 2 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 5:30 pm to 6:12 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 6:21 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 New Kingston, which works from the same coordinates.
Where New Kingston 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 New Kingston. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open New Kingston on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between New Kingston 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 New Kingston.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to New Kingston |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 9:20 am | -2 | 2 hours behind of New Kingston |
| Chicago, Illinois | 11:20 am | 0 | same time as New Kingston |
| New York, New York | 12:20 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of New Kingston |
| Toronto, Canada | 12:20 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of New Kingston |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 1:20 pm | +2 | 2 hours ahead of New Kingston |
| London, United Kingdom | 5:20 pm | +6 | 6 hours ahead of New Kingston |
| Paris, France | 6:20 pm | +7 | 7 hours ahead of New Kingston |
| Berlin, Germany | 6:20 pm | +7 | 7 hours ahead of New Kingston |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 6:20 pm | +7 | 7 hours ahead of New Kingston |
| Moscow, Russia | 7:20 pm | +8 | 8 hours ahead of New Kingston |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 8:20 pm | +9 | 9 hours ahead of New Kingston |
| Delhi, India | 9:50 pm | +10:30 | 10 hours 30 minutes ahead of New Kingston |
| Singapore, Singapore | 12:20 am | +13 | 13 hours ahead of New Kingston |
| Hong Kong, China | 12:20 am | +13 | 13 hours ahead of New Kingston |
| Tokyo, Japan | 1:20 am | +14 | 14 hours ahead of New Kingston |
| Sydney, Australia | 2:20 am | +15 | 15 hours ahead of New Kingston |
Best time to call New Kingston
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 New Kingston | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | +1 | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | 10:00 am to 6:00 pm |
| Los Angeles | -2 | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm |
| London | +6 | 9:00 am to 12:00 pm | 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Delhi | +10:30 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| Sydney | +15 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
Other cities in Jamaica
We cover 4 cities in Jamaica. These are the ones nearest to New Kingston, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kingston | Surrey | 11:20 am | UTC-5 |
| Portmore | Saint Catherine Parish | 11:20 am | UTC-5 |
| Spanish Town | Saint Catherine Parish | 11:20 am | UTC-5 |
Cities on America/Jamaica time
4 of our cities keep America/Jamaica, so every one of them reads 11:20 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as New Kingston. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From New Kingston |
|---|---|---|
| Kingston, Jamaica | 11:20 am | 4 km |
| Portmore, Jamaica | 11:20 am | 12 km |
| Spanish Town, Jamaica | 11:20 am | 19 km |
Moon phase over New Kingston tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 16.5 days into its cycle and about 96% lit. The next full moon falls on October 25, 2026 at 11:11 pm Jamaica time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 10:49 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the New Kingston clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in New Kingston
There is no clock change scheduled in America/Jamaica within the next 400 days, so New Kingston stays at UTC-5 for the whole of that stretch.
That makes New Kingston 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 New Kingston is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to New Kingston is Kingston, Jamaica at 4 km, and the furthest is Pelabuhanratu, Indonesia at 18,738 km, which is 94% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingston, Jamaica | 4 | 3 | south | 11:20 am |
| Portmore, Jamaica | 12 | 7 | west | 11:20 am |
| Spanish Town, Jamaica | 19 | 12 | west | 11:20 am |
| Santiago de Cuba, Cuba | 246 | 153 | north east | 12:20 pm |
| Palma Soriano, Cuba | 259 | 161 | north | 12:20 pm |
| Manzanillo, Cuba | 262 | 163 | north | 12:20 pm |
| Bayamo, Cuba | 264 | 164 | north | 12:20 pm |
| Guantanamo, Cuba | 290 | 180 | north east | 12:20 pm |
| Les Cayes, Haiti | 321 | 200 | east | 12:20 pm |
| Holguin, Cuba | 325 | 202 | north | 12:20 pm |
The antipode of New Kingston
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from New Kingston, Jamaica and you come out at 18.01 degrees south, 103.22 degrees east. That point is in the Indian Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Pelabuhanratu, Indonesia, 1,278 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 11:20 pm on Sunday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 18.01 degrees north becomes 18.01 degrees south, and 76.78 degrees west becomes 103.22 degrees east. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: New Kingston is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC+7, roughly twelve hours from New Kingston, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in New Kingston
Today the sun rises in New Kingston at 5:57 am and sets at 5:59 pm, giving 12 hours 2 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 New Kingston.
Hourly forecast for New Kingston
The next 13 hours, in New Kingston local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 11 AM 28°C 82°F Partly cloudy 16 km/h
- 12 PM 29°C 84°F Partly cloudy 15 km/h
- 1 PM 29°C 84°F Partly cloudy 14 km/h
- 2 PM 29°C 84°F Partly cloudy 12 km/h
- 3 PM 28°C 83°F Partly cloudy 10 km/h
- 4 PM 29°C 83°F Partly cloudy 9 km/h
- 5 PM 28°C 83°F Partly cloudy 10 km/h
- 6 PM 28°C 82°F Fair 9 km/h
- 7 PM 27°C 81°F Partly cloudy 9 km/h
- 8 PM 27°C 80°F Partly cloudy 8 km/h
- 9 PM 26°C 80°F Light rain showers 8 km/h 0.1 mm
- 10 PM 26°C 79°F Partly cloudy 8 km/h
- 11 PM 26°C 79°F Partly cloudy 6 km/h
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for New Kingston
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 26 Sep | 27°C / 80°F | 27°C / 80°F | Cloudy | 0 mm |
| Sun 27 Sep | 29°C / 85°F | 25°C / 77°F | Partly cloudy | 0.5 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 31°C / 87°F | 25°C / 76°F | Rain showers | 0.9 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 31°C / 87°F | 24°C / 75°F | Rain | 2.4 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 31°C / 88°F | 25°C / 76°F | Rain showers | 3.1 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 31°C / 89°F | 25°C / 77°F | Cloudy | 0.2 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 32°C / 89°F | 26°C / 78°F | Light rain | 1.2 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in New Kingston today
The sun is up in New Kingston for 12 hours 2 minutes today, from 5:57 am to 5:59 pm. The moon sets in New Kingston at 6:40 am and comes up again at 6:37 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 New Kingston |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 4:45 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:10 am |
| Civil dawn | 5:35 am |
| Sunrise | 5:57 am |
| Solar noon | 11:58 am |
| Sunset | 5:59 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:21 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:46 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:11 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 New Kingston | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:35 am to 5:44 am | 0h 08m |
| Morning golden hour | 5:44 am to 6:26 am | 0h 42m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:30 pm to 6:12 pm | 0h 42m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:12 pm to 6:21 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 New Kingston |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:37 pm |
| Moonset | 6:40 am |
| Phase | waning gibbous, waning |
| Illumination | 99% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 16.6 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 375,800 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: New Kingston and four other places
Every hour of Sunday, September 27, 2026 in New Kingston, Jamaica, read across 4 other places. Columns are New Kingston 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.
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| New Kingston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New KingstonEST UTC-5 | 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 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 6 | 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 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 10:30 | 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 |
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 New Kingston it is working hours in New Kingston, 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 New Kingston
Seven days from September 27, 2026, computed for New Kingston, Jamaica at 18.01 degrees north, 76.78 degrees west, on the clock of America/Jamaica. 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 | 4:45 am | 5:57 am | 11:58 am | 3:21 pm | 5:59 pm | 7:07 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 4:45 am | 5:57 am | 11:58 am | 3:20 pm | 5:58 pm | 7:06 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 4:45 am | 5:57 am | 11:57 am | 3:20 pm | 5:57 pm | 7:05 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 4:45 am | 5:57 am | 11:57 am | 3:20 pm | 5:56 pm | 7:04 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 4:45 am | 5:58 am | 11:57 am | 3:19 pm | 5:56 pm | 7:04 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 4:46 am | 5:58 am | 11:56 am | 3:19 pm | 5:55 pm | 7:03 pm |
| Saturday October 3 | 4:46 am | 5:58 am | 11:56 am | 3:19 pm | 5:54 pm | 7:02 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at New Kingston, Jamaica, 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 New Kingston
From New Kingston, Jamaica the qibla is 60.2 degrees on a true compass, which is east-northeast, or 29.8 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 11,840 km away, 7,357 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from New Kingston, Jamaica 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 New Kingston, Jamaica 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 New Kingston clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in New Kingston, Jamaica, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads America/Jamaica from the time zone database, so it stays right when New Kingston changes its clocks, and it shows EST 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.
New Kingston time now: common questions
- What time is it in New Kingston, Jamaica right now?
- 11:20 am on Sunday September 27, 2026. New Kingston runs on EST, UTC-5.
- What time zone is New Kingston in?
- America/Jamaica, currently EST at UTC-5. 4 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for New Kingston?
- UTC-5 at this instant. It is UTC-5 all year round, with no seasonal change.
- Does New Kingston observe daylight saving time?
- No. New Kingston stays on UTC-5 for the whole year.
- How many hours ahead or behind is New Kingston of New York?
- New Kingston is 1 hour behind of New York, where it is 12:20 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in New Kingston today?
- 5:59 pm, after a sunrise at 5:57 am and 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from New Kingston?
- 18.01 degrees south, 103.22 degrees east, in the Indian Ocean.
- When is the best time to call New Kingston from London?
- Between 9:00 am and 12:00 pm in New Kingston, which is 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm in London.
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