Chile: Time, Dates and Holidays

 The time in Chile

Continental Chile:

Easter Island:

Magellanes & Palmer station ( Antarctica )

Chile sports 3 distict time zones:

• The most of the mainland as Continental Chile is using the standard time offset UTC-04:00 in winter time and UTC-03:00 in summer time, winter time stars the second Saturday of May and ends the second Saturday of August.
• Magallanes Region (including Chilean Antarctic Territory) uses UTC-03:00 the whole year.
• Chile's Easter Island is using UTC-06:00 in winter and UTC-05:00 in summer, it changes the same days as the Continental time.

Chileans turn the clocks back one hour at the end of Daylight Saving Time (DST) at midnight between the first Saturday night and Sunday morning of April every year. They will then turn clocks forward again to begin DST on the first Saturday/Sunday of September.

National Holidays, solstices and equinoxes (seasons)

All dates adjusted to "Continental Chile" time zone!

Solstices and equinoxes are calculated according to Algorithms provided by J. H. Meeus's "Astronomical Algorithms", 2nd edition.

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