Peru Time (PET) is the official time in Peru. It is always 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−05:00).^[1] Peru has only one time zone and does not observe daylight saving time. During roughly April to October, Peruvian Time is the same as North American Central Time, while during roughly October to April, it is the same as North American Eastern Time.

In the IANA time zone database Peru has the following time zone:

• America/Lima (PE)

• GMT: Greenwich Mean Time - World Time / Time in every Time Zone