Current Time in Porto Alegre, Brazil

How Porto Alegre Keeps Time

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

Porto Alegre 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 Porto Alegre at 5:37 am today and sets at 6:40 pm — 13 hours 4 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:09 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (-30.03, -51.23), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Porto Alegre has about 10 hours 13 minutes of daylight in June and 14 hours 5 minutes in December. The difference is about 3 hours 52 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.

Porto Alegre at a Glance

How Porto Alegre Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Porto Alegre. 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 Porto Alegre

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.