What time is it in San Tan Valley, Arizona?

San Tan Valley 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.

San Tan Valley sits at 33.18°N, 111.56°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in San Tan Valley.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over San Tan Valley it is highest at 12:17 pm today — 17 minutes after clock noon.

At 111.6°W, San Tan Valley 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 San Tan Valley, 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 San Tan Valley between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.