What time is it in Scottsdale, Arizona?

Scottsdale 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.

Scottsdale sits at 33.68°N, 111.86°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Scottsdale.

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

At 111.9°W, Scottsdale 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 Scottsdale, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 29 minutes, from 14 hours 24 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 55 minutes in December.

At 33.7°N that puts Scottsdale between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.