What time is it in Maricopa, Arizona?

Maricopa stays on Mountain Standard Time all year and does not move its clocks. Its offset from UTC never changes, so its relationship to the rest of the country shifts twice a year instead.

Maricopa sits at 33.04°N, 112.00°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Maricopa.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Maricopa it is highest at 12:19 pm today — 19 minutes after clock noon.

At 112.0°W, Maricopa sits close to the meridian its zone is named for, so clock time and sun time nearly agree.

Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Maricopa, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 22 minutes, from 14 hours 20 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 58 minutes in December.

At 33.0°N that puts Maricopa between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.