What time is it in Tempe, Arizona?

Tempe 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.

Tempe sits at 33.39°N, 111.93°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Tempe.

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

At 111.9°W, Tempe 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 Tempe, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 26 minutes, from 14 hours 22 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 56 minutes in December.

At 33.4°N that puts Tempe between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.