Local time · Rio Branco
What time is it in Rio Branco?
4:48:59AM
Friday, November 13, 2026 in Rio Branco, Brazil (Acre). UTC−5:00.
- UTC offset
- UTC−5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not observed
- Versus Sao Paulo
- 2 hours behind
- Versus New York
- Same time
Around the world
Why Rio Branco has its own time
Brazil spans 4 time zones, so the answer depends on where in it you mean. Rio Branco covers Acre and is 2 hours behind Sao Paulo, which is the zone most people mean by “the time in Brazil”.
Rio Branco does not observe daylight saving, so its offset from UTC never moves. Its relationship to places that do change shifts twice a year instead.
The other zones in Brazil
- Sao Paulo6:48 am · UTC−3:00
- Fernando de Noronha7:48 am · UTC−2:00
- Manaus5:48 am · UTC−4:00
- Rio Branco — here4:48 am · UTC−5:00