Current Time in Brasilia, Brazil

How Brasilia Keeps Time

Brasilia keeps Sao Paulo time, UTC-3. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Brasilia; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Brasilia runs on the America/Sao_Paulo zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC-3 right now. There is no daylight saving here, so that offset holds all year and the difference to other places only changes when they move their own clocks.

The sun rises in Brasilia at 5:38 am today and sets at 6:12 pm — 12 hours 34 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 11:55 am. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (-15.79, -47.88), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Brasilia has about 11 hours 11 minutes of daylight in June and 13 hours 4 minutes in December. The difference is about 1 hour 53 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

Sao Paulo time is one of several zones in Brazil, so a time quoted for the country as a whole is not necessarily the time here. Check the city rather than the country when it matters.

Brasilia at a Glance

How Brasilia Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Brasilia. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.

Nearby Listed Cities to Brasilia

Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.

Other Cities in Brazil

Brazil keeps more than one zone, so these do not all read the same.