What time is it in Tucson, Arizona?
5:04:35 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
- 554,013
Tucson does not change its clocks
Tucson 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.
Tucson sits at 32.15°N, 110.87°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Tucson.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Tucson it is highest at 12:15 pm today — 15 minutes after clock noon.
At 110.9°W, Tucson sits close to the meridian its zone is named for, so clock time and sun time nearly agree.
Daylight in Tucson today
- Sunrise
- 6:13 am
- Sunset
- 6:16 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 15 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Tucson, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 13 minutes, from 14 hours 15 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 2 minutes in December.
At 32.2°N that puts Tucson between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.