Argentina · Buenos Aires
Current time in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires runs on Buenos Aires time, currently UTC-03:00. The clock ticks live below in Argentina local time. Use it for scheduling calls, catching flights, or checking whether colleagues are still at their desks.
Live clock for Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
What time is it in Buenos Aires right now?
Right now it is 10:52 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The city sits in the Buenos Aires time zone (IANA identifier America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires), with an offset of UTC-03:00 from Coordinated Universal Time. If your country observes daylight saving and Argentina does not, expect the offset shown above to shift by an hour during your spring and autumn changeovers.
People moving between time zones rarely care about the abstract offset. They care whether the person on the other end is asleep, eating lunch, or about to start their day. Glance at the live clock above to read the Buenos Aires wall-clock time at this exact second, the same time anyone in town is looking at on their phone. The page updates every second without a refresh.
If you are arranging a meeting from somewhere else, the cleanest way is to pick a wall-clock time in Buenos Aires, then read what it translates to in your own city. That avoids the daylight-saving traps that catch out people who try to do the math with a fixed offset. The converter below the holidays section links into our full tool, which handles both ends of the conversion at once.
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Full calendar →National Sovereignty Day
Día de la Soberanía Nacional
Mon, Nov 23
Immaculate Conception Day
Día de la Inmaculada Concepción de María
Tue, Dec 8
Christmas Day
Navidad
Fri, Dec 25
Other cities in Argentina
Working with Buenos Aires from somewhere else
Buenos Aires sits in Argentina, which uses Buenos Aires as its civil time. The current UTC offset is -03:00. If you are running a remote team with people on the ground in Buenos Aires, the practical question is which hours overlap with yours. Our meeting scheduler handles that across any combination of cities. For a quick mental model, the offset above is the difference from UTC, so add your own offset to read across.
Expats and freelancers use this page differently. If you have just moved to Buenos Aires, you probably want the public holiday list above so you know which Mondays you can sleep in and which Tuesdays the banks are closed. If you are billing clients from somewhere else, the offset matters less than knowing when their working day starts, which is roughly 12:00 your local time for a 9am start in Buenos Aires.
Travellers crossing into Argentina usually want to know two things: how many hours to shift the watch, and whether daylight saving is about to make the answer wrong. Some countries observe DST and some do not. The clock above always shows the correct current offset, so if you check it the morning before your flight, you have the right number.