Time in Nicaragua

Nicaragua observes Central Standard Time (UTC−6) year-round.^[1]

Time in Nicaragua
Time zone	Central Standard Time
Initials	CST
UTC offset	UTC−6
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
America/Managua

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Nicaragua is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Managua. "NI" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Nicaragua 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
NI	+1209−08617	America/Managua		−06:00	−06:00