Current time in Caracas, Venezuela
The current local time in Caracas is shown below. Caracas observes VET.
What's the daylight saving status?
Caracas 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/Caracas
- Standard abbreviation
- VET
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇻🇪 Venezuela
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Caracas?
Caracas uses Venezuela Time at UTC-4 year-round. The country famously experimented with a UTC-4:30 offset from 2007 to 2016 under the Chávez government, then reverted to UTC-4 to save energy by aligning sunrise earlier in the working day. Venezuela has not observed daylight saving in modern history. The city's longitude near 67 degrees west places wall time close to mean solar noon. Colombia immediately west uses UTC-5, producing a one-hour step at the border. Guyana to the south-east shares the UTC-4 offset.
What are the working hours in Caracas?
Government administration, the petroleum industry's headquartered operations (despite the prolonged production decline through the 2010s), and a substantial informal commercial sector anchor the working economy. Office hours typically run 08:00 to 16:30 with a one-hour lunch around 12:00. The substantial outward migration since the mid-2010s economic crisis has reshaped the urban workforce significantly. Holy Week (Semana Santa) in March or April produces the largest annual calendar disruption, with substantial migration to coastal areas. Christmas and New Year holidays span a substantial closure period.
Where is Caracas?
Caracas is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, sitting in a narrow valley in the coastal Cordillera de la Costa, around 900 metres elevation. The city proper holds around 2 million residents and the wider metropolitan area roughly 3 million. The Ávila mountain (officially Waraira Repano), reaching 2,765 metres, rises immediately north of the city centre, forming a natural barrier between the city and the Caribbean coast around 15 kilometres north. The Guaire River runs east through the city. The valley's confined geography has constrained urban development into a long, narrow corridor.