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The United Kingdom is on summer time: BST (UTC+1) until Sun, Oct 25.

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9:00 am09:00 CLST (UTC-3), Oct 17, 2026 = 12:00 pm12:00 GMT (UTC+0), Oct 17, 2026

Punta Arenas is 3 hours behind GMT.

How the time difference changes

Punta Arenas is 3 hours behind GMT year-round.

Working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in Punta Arenas correspond to 12:00 pm to 9:00 pm in GMT.Working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in Punta Arenas correspond to 12:00 to 21:00 in GMT.

Compare Punta Arenas time with GMT time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.

Time Difference

CLST (Chile Summer Time) is 3 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time.
9:00 am09:00 in Punta Arenas, Chile is 12:00 pm12:00 in GMT

Punta Arenas to GMT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-3pm09:00-15:00 in Punta Arenas which corresponds to 12pm-6pm12:00-18:00 in GMT

9:00 am09:00 CLST (Chile Summer Time) (Punta Arenas, Chile). Offset UTC -3:00 hours
12:00 pm12:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours

9:00 am09:00 Punta Arenas, Chile / 12:00 pm12:00 GMT

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Punta Arenas Time Zone and Facts

Time Zone

Abbreviation / Offset
CLST – Chile Summer Time, UTC-3 (no daylight saving time)

Punta Arenas Facts

Country
Chile
Alternative Names
Magallanes, PUQ, Ponta Arenasos, Pounta Arenas, Promontorium Arenosum, Punta Arehnas, Punta Arenas, Punta Arenasas, Punta-Arenas, Puntaarenasa, peng ta a lei na si, pun ta xa renas, puntaalenaseu, punta・arenasu, pwnta arnas, pwnta arynas, Πούντα Αρένας, Пунта Аренас, Пунта Арэнас, Пунта-Аренас, פּונטא ארענאס, פונטה ארנס, پونتا آرناس, پونتا اریناس, ปุนตาอาเรนัส, პუნტა-არენასი, プンタ・アレーナス, 蓬塔阿雷纳斯, 푼타아레나스
Population
117,430
Currency
Peso (CLP)
Geographic Coordinates
53° 09' S Latitude / 70° 54' W Longitude
International Dialing Code
+56

Greenwich Mean Time

Offset: GMT is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Antarctica, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Greenland, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Ivory Coast, Jersey, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Saint Helena, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, United Kingdom, Western Sahara

Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT time zone is London in the United Kingdom, with about 8.962 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Abidjan, Bamako, Casablanca, Dakar.

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is now often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, and in casual use the two are the same. In the military, GMT is known as Zulu time. Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields, until the introduction of UTC in 1972.

Map of the areas on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
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Today the lighter areas are on UTC+1 (British Summer Time, Irish Standard Time).

GMT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
  • +00 - basic short
  • +0000 - basic
  • +00:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates the zero UTC/GMT offset.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Zulu - Military abbreviation for GMT
  • Z - short form of 'Zulu'
IANA/Olson: Reflects GMT time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Africa/Abidjan
  • Africa/Accra
  • Africa/Bamako
  • Africa/Banjul
  • Africa/Bissau
  • Africa/Conakry
  • Africa/Dakar
  • Africa/Freetown
  • Africa/Lome
  • Africa/Monrovia
  • Africa/Nouakchott
  • Africa/Ouagadougou
  • Africa/Sao_Tome
  • Africa/Timbuktu
  • America/Danmarkshavn
  • Atlantic/Reykjavik
  • Atlantic/St_Helena
  • Eire
  • Etc/GMT
  • Etc/GMT+0
  • Etc/GMT-0
  • Etc/GMT0
  • Etc/Greenwich
  • Europe/Belfast
  • Europe/Dublin
  • Europe/Guernsey
  • Europe/Isle_of_Man
  • Europe/Jersey
  • Europe/London
  • GB
  • GB-Eire
  • GMT
  • GMT+0
  • GMT-0
  • GMT0
  • Greenwich
  • Iceland
Time zones with the GMT +0 offset:
  • EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
  • GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
  • WET - Western European Time
  • AZOST - Azores Summer Time
  • UTC - Coordinated Universal Time
  • WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
  • Z - Zulu Time Zone