| Time in Nicaragua | |
| Time Zone: | Central Standard Time |
| Initials: | CST |
| Offset: | UTC−6 |
| Dst: | no |
| Tz: | America/Managua |
Nicaragua observes Central Standard Time (UTC−6) year-round.[1]
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]