What Time Is It in Saint Barthelemy Right Now?

Four hours behind UTC, always. Saint Barthélemy keeps UTC−4 every day of the year, with no summer time and no seasonal switch. Subtract four hours from UTC and that is local time across the island; the converter above does the same sum against any city you name.

• Offset: UTC−4, unchanging

• Seasonal change: None

• Zones on the island: One

• Neighbouring islands: The same offset, under three different sovereigns

Saint Barthélemy Time Zone Quick Reference

Everything else moved. In five years the island detached itself from Guadeloupe to become a collectivity in its own right, gained its own country code, took control of its own tax and customs rules, and then, on the first day of 2012, stopped being EU territory altogether - leaving the internal market while keeping the euro and its free-port status. The clock did not move once. The database reflects that by giving the island no record of its own: the identifier in use resolves to an existing Caribbean entry, because the reading here has never differed from its neighbours'. A jurisdiction can acquire a code of its own and a customs frontier without acquiring an hour.

Why One UTC Offset Covers the Island and Its Neighbours

Three sovereigns, one reading. Within a short flight or boat ride there are French, Dutch and British territories, and all hold a fixed UTC−4: Saint Martin in its French and Dutch halves, Anguilla beyond it, Saba and Sint Eustatius to the south-west. Gustavia and every quarter of the island read the same figure at the same instant, as does each of those neighbours in every week of the year - so every crossing in this corner of the Caribbean is clock-neutral.

Why There Is No Daylight Saving Time Here

Nothing to shift. The island has never observed a seasonal change, and neither has any territory around it. At around eighteen degrees north the difference between the longest and shortest day is modest, so a spring shift would move the clock without moving much daylight. Every figure below is therefore either constant or moves entirely from the other end: a difference worked out in January still holds in July.

Two cells read the same, for different reasons. Philipsburg matches in both columns because Sint Maarten holds the identical fixed offset. Miami matches only in summer, climbing to UTC−4 each spring on its own seasonal clock and dropping back each autumn. Panama City and Buenos Aires never vary either, each on a fixed offset. Denver, London and Paris are the rows whose gaps move, and none of them moves from this side.

One hour one way, five or six the other. The island's two main outside relationships pull opposite ways. The United States east coast is level through the American summer and an hour ahead in winter, so American guests, charters and suppliers need almost no arithmetic. Paris is five hours ahead in the French winter and six in the French summer, putting a metropolitan morning in the middle of the local night and leaving only a narrow band of overlap in the local morning, narrower for half the year. Air links run mostly through Sint Maarten on the same clock, so a connection reads as printed. Flight and boat frequencies vary by season. Always confirm schedules directly with the operator.

Does Saint Barthélemy change its clocks with France?
No. Metropolitan France switches twice a year; the island holds UTC−4 throughout, so the gap to Paris is five hours in the French winter and six in the French summer.

Is it the same time as Sint Maarten and Saint Martin?
Yes, in every week of the year. Both halves of that island hold the same fixed UTC−4, as does Anguilla.

Why does software sometimes show a different Caribbean city for this island?
Because the identifier resolves to an existing entry rather than a separate record. The reading is correct; only the label names somewhere else.

Is Saint Barthélemy in the European Union?
Not since 2012. It is an associated overseas territory outside the internal market, though it uses the euro. None of that affects the offset.

Is it the same time as Miami?
Through the American summer, yes. Once the United States returns to standard time in autumn, the island is an hour ahead.

Do timetables here use the 24-hour clock?
Yes. Air and boat schedules use 24-hour notation, so an evening departure reads 20:15. Dates run day first, as in France.

Related Guides

• Time in Saint Martin

• Time in Guadeloupe

• Time in Anguilla

• Time in France