Chile Travel Guide Handbook. Time and Date

Local Time

Current local time is UTC-04:00 (Universal Time Coordinate, formerly Greenwich Mean Time).
However, during Daylight Saving Time (DST or summer time) clocks are adjusted one hour foward (UTC-03:00) from the second Saturday of October, at 12 am, till the second Saturday of March, same time.

During what is locally known as Winter Time, that is between March and Octuber, Chile has the same time as Eastern United States (DST). The rest of the year though, it's 2 hours later than DST.

Time zone for Easter Island is UTC-06:00 time zone but UTC-05:00 during summer.

Chile uses 24-hour clock format and little endian forms for dates, that is "dd/mm/yyyy" format.

Hollidays

Holidays are on the following dates:

1st, January: New Year
March/April (variable): Good Friday
1st, May: Labour Day
21st, May: Glory of the Navy
June (variable): Corpus Christi
29th, June: Saint Peter and Saint Paul
15th, August: Assumption of Mary
18th, September: Independence Day
19th, September: Glory of the Army
12th, October: Columbus Day
1st, November: All Saints' Day
8th, December: Immaculate Conception
25th, December: Christmas Day

Shopping centers, restaurants and cafés, entertainment and public transportation are fully functional even on holidays, except on May 1st when they close earlier.

Need more information on hollidays? Please visit Feriados.cl.

Working Schedule

These are schedules of common daily actitvities, offices and services during the week:

Offices:
Monday to Friday
9:00 to 6:00 pm

Banks:
Monday to Friday
9:00 to 2:00 pm

Shopping Malls:
Monday to Sunday
11:00 to 9:00 / 10:00 pm

Stores & shops:
Monday to Saturday
10:00 to 8:00 pm

Supermarkets:
Monday to Sunday
8:30 to 10:00 /11:00 pm

Cinema:
Monday to Sunday
4:00pm, 7:00 & 10:00pm

Lunch time:
1:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Dinner time:
9:00 pm to 12:00 am

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