Current time in Lima, Peru
The current local time in Lima is shown below. Lima observes PET.
What's the daylight saving status?
Lima does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- America/Lima
- Standard abbreviation
- PET
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇵🇪 Peru
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Lima?
Lima uses Peru Time at UTC-5 year-round. Peru does not observe daylight saving and has held to a single fixed offset since 1990. The country's geographic position (the city sits at around 77 degrees west) places it close to its solar meridian, with the entire territory operating on a single timezone despite spanning more than 12 degrees of longitude. The Pacific coastal alignment with US Eastern Time (in winter) supports significant overlap with North American markets.
What are the working hours in Lima?
Lima's working day runs 09:00 to 18:00 with a one-hour lunch break, typically taken from 13:00. The city's substantial Spanish-influenced commercial culture supports a noticeable evening business and dining activity, with dinner commonly eaten after 20:30. Peruvian public holidays include Independence Day on 28 July (which extends into a multi-day national observance), Combat of Angamos on 8 October, and a substantial concentration of religious observances around Easter.
Where is Lima?
Lima sits on the central coast of Peru in the narrow desert strip between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains. The metropolitan population is around 10.7 million, the capital and largest Peruvian city and home to roughly a third of the country's total population. The geography of the coastal desert produces an unusual climate: significant cloud cover most of the year but very little actual rainfall, with the urban water supply heavily dependent on Andean mountain runoff.