Current time in Asunción, Paraguay
The current local time in Asunción is shown below. Asunción observes PYT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Asunción 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/Asuncion
- Standard abbreviation
- PYT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇵🇾 Paraguay
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Asunción?
Paraguay made an unusual decision in 2024: rather than continue shifting its clocks twice a year, it chose to stay permanently on its summer offset of UTC-3, abolishing the seasonal change. For decades the country had kept UTC-4 in winter and UTC-3 in summer, but it now holds the later offset all year, which keeps more daylight in the summer evenings at the cost of darker winter mornings. The capital sits an hour ahead of where its longitude alone would place it.
What are the working hours in Asunción?
Government, agribusiness, and the trade that moves through the river port anchor the working economy, with the cattle and soy of the surrounding countryside underpinning much of it. The working day starts early and breaks for a substantial midday pause through the intense summer heat, when temperatures regularly climb past the high thirties. Spanish and Guaraní mix freely in business as in daily life. The main closures fall around Christmas and the New Year, Holy Week, and the patriotic national holidays of May.
Where is Asunción?
Asunción sits on the Paraguay River in the south-west of Paraguay, across the water from Argentina, the capital and largest city of a landlocked country at the heart of South America. The metropolitan area holds around 2.5 million people, a large share of the national population. One of the oldest cities in the region, founded in 1537, it is the political and economic centre of a country where Spanish and the indigenous Guaraní language are both widely spoken in daily life.