Current time in Aruba, Aruba
The current local time in Aruba is shown below. Aruba observes AST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Aruba 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/Aruba
- Standard abbreviation
- AST
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇦🇼 Aruba
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Aruba?
Aruba operates on Atlantic Standard Time at UTC-4 year-round with no daylight saving, the same offset as the rest of the southern Caribbean and as Venezuela on the mainland to the south. The island's near-equatorial position at around 12.5 degrees north produces minimal seasonal variation in day length, removing any rationale for DST. The offset places Aruba an hour ahead of New York in winter and on the same time during US daylight saving.
What are the working hours in Aruba?
Aruba's working economy is dominated by tourism, with around 1.5 million annual stayover visitors and an additional cruise visitor flow producing one of the highest visitor-to-resident ratios in the Caribbean. The high-rise resort strip at Palm Beach concentrates the international hotel inventory. Office hours run 08:00 to 17:00 in the conventional sectors. Dutch is the official language alongside Papiamento and English. Public holidays combine the Dutch royal observances with local Carnival (the Carnival Monday celebration in February or March) and the Independence Day Dia di Himno y Bandera on 18 March.
Where is Aruba?
Aruba is a small island in the southern Caribbean, around 30 kilometres off the Venezuelan coast and the westernmost of the three ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao) of the former Netherlands Antilles. The island measures around 32 kilometres long and 9 kilometres wide, with a population of around 110,000 concentrated in the capital Oranjestad on the western coast and the resort areas of Palm Beach further north. Aruba has been a constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1986, with autonomy on most domestic matters.