Local time in Brazil
Federative Republic of Brazil
Current local time in Brazil — this country spans 16 time zones. The clocks below update live in your browser.
Brazil spans 16 IANA time zones in total; the 4 principal zones (one per UTC offset) are shown above.
Time difference — Brasília
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Differences are relative to Brasília, Brazil, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Brazil
- Standard label
- UTC-2 to UTC-5
- Standard offset (Brasília)
- UTC−3
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 16
- Capital
- Brasília
- IANA zones
- America/Araguaina, America/Bahia, America/Belem, America/Boa_Vista, America/Campo_Grande, America/Cuiaba, America/Eirunepe, America/Fortaleza +8 more
Brazil uses UTC-2 to UTC-5 as its standard time across 16 IANA zones. Clocks stay on the same offset all year round — daylight saving time is not observed. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in Brazil.
Sunrise and sunset in Brasília
At 15.8° south, Brasília gets 13 h 04 min of daylight around the December solstice but only 11 h 11 min around the June solstice — a difference of 1 h 53 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 05:56 | 12:23 | 18:51 | 12 h 54 min |
| 21 February | 06:11 | 12:26 | 18:42 | 12 h 31 min |
| 21 March | 06:16 | 12:20 | 18:23 | 12 h 06 min |
| 21 April | 06:21 | 12:11 | 18:01 | 11 h 40 min |
| 21 May | 06:29 | 12:09 | 17:49 | 11 h 20 min |
| 21 June | 06:38 | 12:14 | 17:50 | 11 h 11 min |
| 21 July | 06:39 | 12:19 | 17:58 | 11 h 19 min |
| 21 August | 06:26 | 12:16 | 18:05 | 11 h 39 min |
| 21 September | 06:03 | 12:06 | 18:08 | 12 h 05 min |
| 21 October | 05:41 | 11:57 | 18:13 | 12 h 32 min |
| 21 November | 05:31 | 11:58 | 18:26 | 12 h 54 min |
| 21 December | 05:38 | 12:10 | 18:42 | 13 h 04 min |
Calculated for Brasília (-15.79°, -47.88°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in Brazil (America/Sao_Paulo)
Brazil does not change its clocks in the America/Sao_Paulo zone: it stays on UTC-2 to UTC-5 all year in 2026 and 2027.
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.