Queens, United States · UTC-4
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Queens is in the America/New York timezone (EST/UTC-5, shifting to EDT/UTC-4 during daylight saving time). Queens is home to people from more countries than any other comparably sized place on Earth. Jackson Heights has been called the most ethnically diverse neighborhood in the world. Flushing’s downtown is a second Chinatown of a scale that rivals Chinatowns in actual Chinese cities. Astoria was Greek, then became Latin American, then Korean. Every corner of the borough has its own cultural calendar running alongside the civil one.
The borough runs on Eastern Time, UTC-5 in winter (EST) and UTC-4 in summer (EDT), the same clock as Manhattan across the East River and Philadelphia to the south. The time is identical across all five boroughs of New York City.
What differs is how time is structured within it. The lunar New Year in Flushing brings a different kind of morning in late January or February. The Diwali celebrations in Jamaica and Richmond Hill light up October evenings. The Eid prayers at the many mosques in Jamaica and Corona run on the Islamic lunar calendar. John F. Kennedy International Airport at the borough’s southern edge runs 24 hours, a constant pulse of arrivals from every timezone on Earth.
airports and the pulse of arrivals
LaGuardia Airport, more intimate and domestic, connects Queens to the American mainland. JFK connects it to everywhere else.
9am in Queens is 2pm in London in winter.
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Questions about time in Queens
- What timezone is Queens in?
- Queens is in Eastern Time (ET), using the IANA timezone
America/New_York. The standard UTC offset is UTC-5 (EST) in winter and UTC-4 (EDT) during daylight saving time. - Does Queens observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. Queens observes daylight saving time, shifting from UTC-5 (standard time) to UTC-4 in summer.
- What is the current UTC offset for Queens?
- Queens is currently at UTC-4. It is currently observing daylight saving time.
- What is the time difference between Queens and London?
- Queens is currently 5 hours behind London.
- What is the time difference between Queens and Los Angeles?
- Queens is currently 3 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Queens and Tokyo?
- Queens is currently 13 hours behind Tokyo. Tokyo does not observe daylight saving time, so this gap changes by 1 hour when Queens transitions to/from DST.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Queens?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Queens is
America/New_York. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'America/New_York' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('America/New_York')`), or any IANA-compatible library.