Current time in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
The current local time in Port of Spain is shown below. Port of Spain observes AST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Port of Spain 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/Port_of_Spain
- Standard abbreviation
- AST
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Port of Spain?
Trinidad and Tobago keeps Atlantic Standard Time at UTC-4 year-round, with no daylight saving, the same offset as the eastern Caribbean and as Venezuela on the mainland a short distance to the west. The fixed clock places the country an hour ahead of New York in winter and level with it through the North American summer. The tropical latitude, around ten degrees north, gives the islands little seasonal change in daylight, so the steady offset serves them well throughout the year.
What are the working hours in Port of Spain?
Oil, gas, and petrochemicals anchor an economy more industrial than its neighbours, giving Port of Spain a business culture geared to energy and finance alongside government, with offices generally running 08:00 to 16:00 on weekdays. The country is also the cultural powerhouse of the Caribbean, the birthplace of calypso, soca, and the steelpan, and home to a Carnival, held in February or March, that is the model for the region's celebrations and brings business to a halt for its two days of street parades.
Where is Port of Spain?
Port of Spain sits on the Gulf of Paria on the north-western coast of Trinidad, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, the southernmost nation of the Caribbean, lying just off the coast of Venezuela. The metropolitan area holds a few hundred thousand people, part of a densely populated industrial corridor. Unlike most of the region, the country's wealth rests not on tourism but on oil and natural gas, which have made it one of the more industrialised economies of the Caribbean.