Local time · Queen Creek
What time is it in Queen Creek, Arizona?
2:51:14AM
- Time zone
- MST
- America/Phoenix
- UTC offset
- −7:00
- Never changes
- Daylight saving
- Not observed
- Population
- 83,781
- City proper
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About this clock
Queen Creek does not change its clocks
Queen Creek 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.
Queen Creek sits at 33.24°N, 111.61°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Queen Creek.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Queen Creek it is highest at 12:10 pm today — 10 minutes after clock noon.
At 111.6°W, Queen Creek sits 26 minutes of solar time west of Mountain Standard Time’s 105° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 26 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Queen Creek today
- Sunrise
- 6:55 am
- Sunset
- 5:25 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 30 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 21 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 30 minutes in Queen Creek, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 24 minutes, from 14 hours 21 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 57 minutes in December.
At 33.2°N that puts Queen Creek between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.