Current time in Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda
The current local time in Antigua is shown below. Antigua observes AST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Antigua 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/Antigua
- Standard abbreviation
- AST
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Antigua?
Antigua keeps Atlantic Standard Time at UTC-4 year-round, the offset of the eastern Caribbean, with no daylight saving, a fixed clock that the steady tropical day length makes entirely practical. The offset places the island an hour ahead of the United States East Coast in the northern winter and on the same time when the mainland shifts to summer daylight saving. The eastern Caribbean shares this clock across a string of small island states running from the Virgin Islands south.
What are the working hours in Antigua?
Tourism dominates the economy almost entirely, and the natural harbours have made the island a centre of Caribbean yachting, with the sailing season and regattas such as Antigua Sailing Week drawing fleets and visitors each spring. The working day runs broadly 08:00 to 16:30 on weekdays, with the visitor economy keeping its own longer hours. The cruise and winter-sun seasons set the commercial peaks, and the main closures follow the Christian calendar alongside the summer Carnival that marks the August emancipation anniversary.
Where is Antigua?
Antigua is the larger of the two main islands of Antigua and Barbuda, a small twin-island nation in the eastern Caribbean, where the Leeward Islands curve down toward the open Atlantic. The capital, St John's, and most of the country's roughly 95,000 people sit on Antigua, an island of low hills and a deeply indented coast famous for its many sheltered bays and beaches. A former British colony, it became independent in 1981 and keeps English as its language.