Current time in Cali, Colombia
The current local time in Cali is shown below. Cali observes COT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Cali 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/Bogota
- Standard abbreviation
- COT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇨🇴 Colombia
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Cali?
Cali keeps Colombia's single national offset of UTC-5, held year-round with no daylight saving, the same clock the whole country has used since a brief experiment in the early 1990s was abandoned. The near-equatorial position, only around three degrees north, means the length of the day scarcely changes through the year, so the sun rises and sets at much the same time every month, one of the reasons the country has seen no lasting case for shifting the clocks.
What are the working hours in Cali?
Sugar processing and agro-industry from the surrounding valley, along with services and manufacturing, anchor the working economy, with offices running roughly 08:00 to 18:00 around a midday break in the valley's steady warmth. The salsa scene gives the city an unusually active nightlife that runs late, especially toward the weekend. The main closures follow Colombia's numerous Catholic public holidays, many of which are shifted to Mondays to make long weekends, alongside the Feria de Cali, the festival that fills the days after Christmas.
Where is Cali?
Cali lies in a warm valley in the south-west of Colombia, between the western and central ranges of the Andes, around 100 kilometres inland from the Pacific coast. The metropolitan area holds around 2.8 million people, the country's third largest. The capital of the Valle del Cauca, a region of sugar-cane plantations and agro-industry, it is widely regarded as the capital of salsa music and dance, a tradition that fills its clubs and shapes its nightlife and its sense of itself.