Local time · Surprise
What time is it in Surprise, Arizona?
2:50:23AM
- Time zone
- MST
- America/Phoenix
- UTC offset
- −7:00
- Never changes
- Daylight saving
- Not observed
- Population
- 167,564
- City proper
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About this clock
Surprise does not change its clocks
Surprise 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.
Surprise sits at 33.67°N, 112.45°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Surprise.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Surprise it is highest at 12:14 pm today — 14 minutes after clock noon.
At 112.5°W, Surprise sits 30 minutes of solar time west of Mountain Standard Time’s 105° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 30 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Surprise today
- Sunrise
- 7:00 am
- Sunset
- 5:28 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 28 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 23 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 28 minutes in Surprise, 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 Surprise between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.