It is 9:07 am in America/Paramaribo
America/Paramaribo is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Paramaribo in Suriname. It is running at UTC-3 right now, with no letter abbreviation in common use, and the local date is Saturday, September 26, 2026. The zone never moves its clocks.
What time is it in America/Paramaribo right now
9:07 am on Saturday, September 26, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 09:07. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is a whole 3 hours behind UTC, so a UTC timestamp converts here by changing the hour and leaving the minutes exactly as they are.
33 other zones read UTC-3 at this instant. They are interchangeable as a clock reading today and not as an identifier: storing UTC-3 instead of America/Paramaribo throws away the rule that decides what they all do at the next transition.
The UTC offset of America/Paramaribo
An offset of UTC-3 names the meridian 45.0 degrees west. Paramaribo, Suriname actually sits at 55.17 degrees west, which is 10.2 degrees west of it, so the sun there runs about 41 minutes behind the clock before daylight saving is even considered. Zone boundaries are drawn by borders and by convenience, not by longitude, and this is the size of the gap that produces.
Because this zone never moves its clocks, UTC-3 is the answer on every day of the year. That makes it an easy zone to schedule against, with the caveat that the other end of the call may still be moving its own clocks, so the gap between the two changes even though nothing changed here.
Daylight saving in America/Paramaribo
America/Paramaribo does not observe daylight saving. It sits at UTC-3 in January and reads UTC-3 again in July, so a gap worked out against it today is still right in six months. It has not moved its clocks in any year since 1970 that this page can see.
The database holds no clock change for America/Paramaribo in 2025, 2026 or 2027, so there is no transition table to print. The offset shown at the top of this page is the offset on every date in those three years.
How the offset of America/Paramaribo has changed since 1970
Read on 1 January and 1 July of each year, which is the cheapest pair of samples that shows both the winter offset and whether the clocks moved that summer. The zone has passed through 2 distinct eras in that time and has used 2 different offsets: UTC-3:30, UTC-3. Its current behaviour has held since 1985. A rule change that began and ended between July and the following January is invisible to this sampling, so the table is a shape rather than a complete edit history.
| Years | 1 January | 1 July | Behaviour |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 to 1984 | UTC-3:30 | UTC-3:30 | one offset all year |
| 1985 to 2026 | UTC-3 | UTC-3 | one offset all year |
No summer shift appears in any year sampled, so a piece of software that treats America/Paramaribo as a fixed offset happens to be right, and is right by luck rather than by design: the same assumption applied to a neighbouring zone breaks twice a year.
Countries and regions that use America/Paramaribo
One country uses America/Paramaribo: Suriname, which keeps this as its only time zone and has a population of about 623,000.
Cities in the America/Paramaribo time zone
The one city this site covers inside America/Paramaribo, each with a live clock and today's sunrise and sunset worked out from its own coordinate. The clock reading is a property of the identifier, so it is the same anywhere else in the zone; the sunrise is not, because that is set by latitude and longitude.
| City | Where | Time now | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paramaribo | Suriname | 9:07 am | 6:29 am | 6:35 pm | 12h 05m |
The sun against the clock in America/Paramaribo
Worked out for Paramaribo, Suriname, the city this site covers inside the zone, at 5.87 degrees north, 55.17 degrees west. The sun rises at 6:29 am and sets at 6:35 pm, giving 12 hours 5 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 12:32 pm, which is 32 minutes after clock noon.
That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: Paramaribo, Suriname sitting 10.2 degrees west of the UTC-3 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 8.7 minutes ahead of mean time, and no daylight saving at all, because this zone does not use it. Full sunrise and sunset times for Paramaribo.
Convert America/Paramaribo to another time zone
The converter is keyed on the abbreviations people type rather than on identifiers. America/Paramaribo is at UTC-3 right now, the same reading as AST, so these pages answer the same question for it today. They will diverge if the two zones ever adopt different daylight saving rules, which is exactly why the identifier is the thing worth storing.
Questions about America/Paramaribo
- What time is it in America/Paramaribo right now?
- 9:07 am on Saturday, September 26, 2026, as this page was served. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.
- What is the UTC offset of America/Paramaribo?
- UTC-3 at this instant, on every day of the year.
- Does America/Paramaribo observe daylight saving time?
- No. It stays at UTC-3 all year.
- What is the abbreviation for America/Paramaribo?
- There is no English letter abbreviation in common use for this zone, so it is written as its offset, UTC-3. That is what every other clock shows for it too.
- Which countries use America/Paramaribo?
- Suriname.
- Why store America/Paramaribo instead of UTC-3?
- Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone has one offset today and no guarantee of keeping it, and 33 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC-3 cannot tell them apart; a record storing
America/Paramaribokeeps working through every future rule change.