Current time in Coquimbo, Chile right now

It is 6:32 am in Coquimbo, Chile 🇨🇱 right now, on Thursday, November 5, 2026. The city keeps America/Santiago, which is UTC-3 at UTC-3, so Coquimbo is 3 hours behind of UTC, where it is 9:32 am. The sun rose in Coquimbo at 6:47 am and sets at 8:11 pm, which is 13 hours 23 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Coquimbo right now?

The time in Coquimbo, Chile is 6:32 am, 06:32 on a 24 hour clock, on Thursday November 5, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the America/Santiago rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.

Coquimbo sits at 29.95 degrees south and 71.34 degrees west, just outside the tropics and 3,331 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 45.0 degrees west, and the city itself is 26.3 degrees west of that line. Those 26.3 degrees are worth 105 minutes 21 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 1:29 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Coquimbo time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for Coquimbo, Chile is America/Santiago. Right now it is running at UTC-3 and the abbreviation in force is UTC-3. Coquimbo is on summer time at the moment, which is why the offset reads UTC-3 rather than the UTC-4 it keeps in winter.

Daylight hours in Coquimbo today

The sun rose in Coquimbo at 6:47 am and sets at 8:11 pm, which is 13 hours 23 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Coquimbo, is at 1:29 pm, which is 89 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -15.82 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 75.9 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the north.

The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Coquimbo, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Coquimbo is on the map

The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.

Time difference between Coquimbo and major cities

Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Coquimbo.

Best time to call Coquimbo

Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.

Other cities in Chile

We cover 38 cities in Chile. These are the ones nearest to Coquimbo, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on America/Santiago time

37 of our cities keep America/Santiago, so every one of them reads 6:32 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Coquimbo. Nearest first:

Moon phase over Coquimbo tonight

The moon is a waning crescent tonight, 25.7 days into its cycle and about 15% lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 at 11:53 am Santiago time, and the next new moon on November 9, 2026 at 4:01 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Coquimbo clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Coquimbo

The next change is on Saturday, April 3, 2027, 150 days from now, when the clocks in Coquimbo go back 1 hour at 11:59 pm and the offset moves from UTC-3 to UTC-4.

Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Coquimbo shifts by an hour on that date unless the other side moves the same weekend, and every offset printed on this page is the offset for today rather than a fixed property of the city.

How far Coquimbo is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Coquimbo is La Serena, Chile at 10 km, and the furthest is Lichuan, China at 19,972 km, which is 100% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Coquimbo

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Coquimbo, Chile and you come out at 29.95 degrees north, 108.66 degrees east. That point is near Lichuan, China. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Lichuan, China, 43 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 5:32 pm on Thursday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 29.95 degrees south becomes 29.95 degrees north, and 71.34 degrees west becomes 108.66 degrees east. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Coquimbo is one of the exceptions, with dry land on the far side. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC+9, roughly twelve hours from Coquimbo, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Coquimbo

Today the sun rises in Coquimbo at 6:47 am and sets at 8:11 pm, giving 13 hours 23 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Coquimbo.

Sun and moon in Coquimbo today

The sun is up in Coquimbo for 13 hours 23 minutes today, from 6:47 am to 8:11 pm. The moon rises in Coquimbo at 4:28 am and sets at 4:59 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. It is 14% lit at the moment, a waning crescent, thinning by about 7.3 percentage points a day.

Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.

Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.

Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.

Prayer times in Coquimbo

Seven days from November 5, 2026, computed for Coquimbo, Chile at 29.95 degrees south, 71.34 degrees west, on the clock of America/Santiago. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.

Dhuhr is solar noon at Coquimbo, Chile, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.

Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.

Qibla direction from Coquimbo

From Coquimbo, Chile the qibla is 80.3 degrees on a true compass, which is east, or 9.7 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 13,151 km away, 8,172 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Coquimbo, Chile to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.

The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Coquimbo, Chile before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.

Coquimbo time now: common questions

What time is it in Coquimbo, Chile right now?

6:32 am on Thursday November 5, 2026. Coquimbo runs on UTC-3, UTC-3.

What time zone is Coquimbo in?

America/Santiago, currently UTC-3 at UTC-3. 37 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Coquimbo?

UTC-3 at this instant. It alternates between UTC-4 and UTC-3 across the year.

Does Coquimbo observe daylight saving time?

Yes. The next change is April 3, 2027, when the clocks go back.

How many hours ahead or behind is Coquimbo of New York?

Coquimbo is 2 hours ahead of New York, where it is 4:32 am right now.

What time does the sun set in Coquimbo today?

8:11 pm, after a sunrise at 6:47 am and 13 hours 23 minutes of daylight.

What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Coquimbo?

29.95 degrees north, 108.66 degrees east, near Lichuan, China.

When is the best time to call Coquimbo from London?

Between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm in Coquimbo, which is 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm in London.

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