What time is it in Boulder, Colorado?
6:52:30 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Mountain Daylight Time, UTC−6:00.
- Time zone
- Mountain Daylight Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−6:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Population
- 106,803
Daylight saving in Boulder
Boulder is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Boulder sits at 40.02°N, 105.25°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Boulder.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Boulder it is highest at 12:52 pm today — 52 minutes after clock noon.
At 105.3°W, Boulder sits well toward the western edge of its zone, which is why the sun stays up later here than the clock suggests. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in Boulder today
- Sunrise
- 6:51 am
- Sunset
- 6:53 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 1 minute
- Longest day
- 15 hours 1 minute
Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in Boulder, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 42 minutes, from 15 hours 1 minute at the June solstice down to 9 hours 19 minutes in December.
At 40.0°N that puts Boulder between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.