diff --git a/esphome/components/sntp/sntp_component.cpp b/esphome/components/sntp/sntp_component.cpp
index c10a3e5ac3..253f3ba2c1 100644
--- a/esphome/components/sntp/sntp_component.cpp
+++ b/esphome/components/sntp/sntp_component.cpp
@@ -33,10 +33,6 @@ void SNTPComponent::setup() {
     sntp_setservername(2, strdup(this->server_3_.c_str()));
   }
 
-#ifdef ARDUINO_ARCH_ESP8266
-  // let localtime/gmtime handle timezones, not sntp
-  sntp_set_timezone(0);
-#endif
   sntp_init();
 }
 void SNTPComponent::dump_config() {