It is 8:10 am in America/St_Barthelemy
America/St_Barthelemy is the IANA identifier for the time zone of St Barthelemy in Saint Barthelemy. It is running at UTC-4 right now, abbreviated AST, and the local date is Saturday, September 26, 2026. The zone never moves its clocks.
What time is it in America/St_Barthelemy right now
8:10 am on Saturday, September 26, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 08:10. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is a whole 4 hours behind UTC, so a UTC timestamp converts here by changing the hour and leaving the minutes exactly as they are.
47 other zones read UTC-4 at this instant. They are interchangeable as a clock reading today and not as an identifier: storing UTC-4 instead of America/St_Barthelemy throws away the rule that decides what they all do at the next transition.
The UTC offset of America/St_Barthelemy
An offset of UTC-4 names the meridian 60.0 degrees west. Gustavia, Saint Barthelemy actually sits at 62.85 degrees west, which is 2.8 degrees west of it, so the sun there runs about 11 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-4 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/St_Barthelemy
America/St_Barthelemy does not observe daylight saving. It sits at UTC-4 in January and reads UTC-4 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/St_Barthelemy 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/St_Barthelemy 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. Nothing has changed: America/St_Barthelemy has been on the same pair of readings for all 57 years sampled. 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 2026 | UTC-4 | UTC-4 | one offset all year |
No summer shift appears in any year sampled, so a piece of software that treats America/St_Barthelemy 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/St_Barthelemy
One country uses America/St_Barthelemy: Saint Barthelemy, which keeps this as its only time zone and has a population of about 11,000.
Cities in the America/St_Barthelemy time zone
This site does not yet carry a city page inside America/St_Barthelemy, so the readings here are computed for the identifier itself and anchored at Gustavia, Saint Barthelemy. That costs nothing in accuracy: an offset is a property of the zone, not of a settlement, so the clock above is right for every point inside it. The city index lists the 6,338 places that do have their own page.
The sun against the clock in America/St_Barthelemy
Worked out for Gustavia, Saint Barthelemy, the capital of a country that keeps the zone, at 17.90 degrees north, 62.85 degrees west. The sun rises at 6:01 am and sets at 6:04 pm, giving 12 hours 3 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 12:03 pm, which is 3 minutes after clock noon.
That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: Gustavia, Saint Barthelemy sitting 2.8 degrees west of the UTC-4 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.
Convert America/St_Barthelemy to another time zone
The converter is keyed on the abbreviations people type rather than on identifiers. America/St_Barthelemy is at UTC-4 right now, the same reading as EST, 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/St_Barthelemy
- What time is it in America/St_Barthelemy right now?
- 8:10 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/St_Barthelemy?
- UTC-4 at this instant, on every day of the year.
- Does America/St_Barthelemy observe daylight saving time?
- No. It stays at UTC-4 all year.
- What is the abbreviation for America/St_Barthelemy?
- AST at this instant. It does not change, because the offset does not.
- Which countries use America/St_Barthelemy?
- Saint Barthelemy.
- Why store America/St_Barthelemy instead of UTC-4?
- 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 47 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC-4 cannot tell them apart; a record storing
America/St_Barthelemykeeps working through every future rule change.