Time in Panama

Panama observes Eastern Standard Zone (UTC−5) year-round.^[1]

Time in Panama
Time zone	Eastern Standard Time
Initials	EST
UTC offset	UTC−5
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
America/Panama

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Panama is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Panama. "PA" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Panama directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:^[2]

c.c.*	coordinates*	TZ*	Comments	UTC offset	DST
PA	+0858−07932	America/Panama	EST - ON (Atikokan), NU (Coral H)	−05:00	−05:00