Current Time in Phoenix, United States

How Phoenix Keeps Time

Phoenix keeps MST, UTC-7. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Phoenix; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Phoenix runs on the America/Phoenix zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC-7 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 Phoenix at 6:40 am today and sets at 5:44 pm — 11 hours 5 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:12 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (33.45, -112.07), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Phoenix has about 14 hours 22 minutes of daylight in June and 9 hours 56 minutes in December. The difference is about 4 hours 26 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

MST is one of several zones in United States, 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.

Phoenix at a Glance

How Phoenix Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Phoenix. 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 Phoenix

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

Other Cities in United States

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