What time is it in Sun City West, Arizona?
5:05:25 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Mountain Standard Time, UTC−7:00.
- Time zone
- Mountain Standard Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−7:00
- Daylight saving
- Not observed
- Population
- 25,806
Sun City West does not change its clocks
Sun City West 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.
Sun City West sits at 33.67°N, 112.36°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Sun City West.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Sun City West it is highest at 12:21 pm today — 21 minutes after clock noon.
At 112.4°W, Sun City West sits comfortably inside its zone.
Daylight in Sun City West today
- Sunrise
- 6:19 am
- Sunset
- 6:22 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 23 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Sun City West, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 29 minutes, from 14 hours 23 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 55 minutes in December.
At 33.7°N that puts Sun City West between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.