Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis · UTC-4
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Basseterre is in the America/St_Kitts timezone (AST/UTC-4). Saint Kitts and Nevis observes no daylight saving, keeping the smallest Western Hemisphere nation on a fixed Caribbean clock.
Basseterre is the capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis, the smallest sovereign nation in the Western Hemisphere by both area and population. The country has around 53,000 people, and Basseterre, on the southwestern coast of Saint Kitts, holds perhaps half of them.
The clock is Atlantic Standard Time, UTC-4. The IANA identifier is America/St_Kitts. No daylight saving.
The Caribbean’s small island nations almost universally use UTC-4 without daylight saving. The latitude of Saint Kitts, at 17 degrees north, makes DST largely irrelevant: day length varies from roughly 11.5 to 12.5 hours throughout the year. There is no compelling case for adjusting the clock.
A colonial clock in the town center
Basseterre’s Circus, modeled on London’s Piccadilly Circus (though considerably smaller), is the colonial-era center of town. The Berkeley Memorial, a drinking fountain clock built in 1883 for a local merchant, still stands there. Clocks and colonial governance went together.
Saint Kitts has a sugar cane history going back centuries. The old sugar plantations, now largely converted to other uses or left as ruins, dot the island’s landscape. The Brimstone Hill Fortress, a UNESCO World Heritage site, still overlooks the western coast.
Baie-Mahault in Guadeloupe shares the same UTC-4 timezone, as does most of the eastern Caribbean.
9am in Basseterre is 1pm in London during European winter.
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Questions about time in Basseterre
- What timezone is Basseterre in?
- Basseterre uses the IANA timezone
America/St_Kitts. The UTC offset is always UTC-4 - this timezone does not observe daylight saving time. - Does Basseterre observe daylight saving time?
- No. Basseterre does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC-4 all year round.
- What is the current UTC offset for Basseterre?
- Basseterre is currently at UTC-4.
- What is the time difference between Basseterre and London?
- Basseterre is currently 5 hours behind London.
- What is the time difference between Basseterre and Los Angeles?
- Basseterre is currently 3 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Basseterre and Tokyo?
- Basseterre is currently 13 hours behind Tokyo.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Basseterre?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Basseterre is
America/St_Kitts. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'America/St_Kitts' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('America/St_Kitts')`), or any IANA-compatible library.