City comparison · time difference and converter
Maracaibo is 5 hours behind London right now. London sits in United Kingdom on London; Maracaibo sits in Venezuela on Caracas. They are roughly 7,805 km apart (4,850 mi), a flight of about 10h 11m. London's metro holds around 9.5 million people; Maracaibo's around 1.8 million.
Slot 1
14:00 / 09:00
London / Maracaibo
Both inside business hoursSlot 2
15:00 / 10:00
London / Maracaibo
Both inside business hoursSlot 3
16:00 / 11:00
London / Maracaibo
Both inside business hoursEach row is one hour in London. Green rows are inside business hours in both cities; amber means only one side is at their desk; grey rows fall outside business hours in both.
Corpus Christi
Maracaibo, Venezuela
Thu, Jun 4
Father's Day
Maracaibo, Venezuela · Día de los Padres
Sun, Jun 21
Anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo
Maracaibo, Venezuela · Aniversario de la Batalla de Carabobo
Wed, Jun 24
Journalists' Day
Maracaibo, Venezuela · Día del Periodista y aniversario de la instauración del Decreto de Instrucción pública gratuita y obligatoria
Sat, Jun 27
Great-circle distance
7,805 km
(4,850 mi)
Approximate flight
10h 11m
850 km/h cruise + 1h taxi/climb/descent
Jet lag
5h
Roughly 1 day to adjust per timezone crossed
The heatmap gives you the shape of the day. If you need to convert one specific hour — say a customer call or a release window — open the converter with both cities already loaded.
Open in converter →The difference between London and Maracaibo is not really a number, it's a daily rhythm. Maracaibo is 5 hours behind London on the clock today, but the lived version is that London is ahead in the calendar, so by the time Maracaibo comes online, half of London's day is already gone. That gap, more than the raw offset, is what teams have to design around.
In London, the working day picks up earliest in the financial districts — City of London desks switch on by 07:30 for the European open. The mood in Maracaibo is its own story: Maracaibo settles into the evening at the usual hour, with the local commuter pattern setting the pace. If you are scheduling between the two, the heatmap above marks the rows where both patterns line up.
Daylight saving is the other thing to keep an eye on. United Kingdom shifts the clock on the last Sunday of March and October; Venezuela either follows its region's DST pattern or stays put all year. When the two changes are weeks apart, the offset between London and Maracaibo is one hour off the usual for that stretch — a cliff that catches recurring calendar invites unless your calendar app rebases them automatically. Pin the meeting to a city, not an offset, and the tool handles the rest.
For travellers, the 10h 11m flight is the short version of the story. The longer one is jet lag: roughly one day of adjustment per timezone crossed, which means a trip across the 5-hour gap costs about 5 groggy days on each side. Pilots and cabin crew swear by morning sunlight and an early walk; whatever your routine, the wall-clock numbers above are the source of truth for your first morning in the new city.