Local time · Denver
What time is it in Denver, Colorado?
2:49:24AM
- Time zone
- MST
- America/Denver
- UTC offset
- −7:00
- Standard is −7:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 729,019
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Denver
Denver is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Denver sits at 39.76°N, 104.88°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Denver.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Denver it is highest at 11:43 am today — 17 minutes before clock noon.
At 104.9°W, Denver sits almost exactly on Mountain Standard Time’s 105° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in Denver today
- Sunrise
- 6:42 am
- Sunset
- 4:45 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 3 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 59 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 3 minutes in Denver, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 38 minutes, from 14 hours 59 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 21 minutes in December.
At 39.8°N that puts Denver between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.