Local time · Grand Junction
What time is it in Grand Junction, Colorado?
2:50:16AM
- Time zone
- MST
- America/Denver
- UTC offset
- −7:00
- Standard is −7:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 70,554
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Grand Junction
Grand Junction is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Grand Junction sits at 39.09°N, 108.57°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Grand Junction.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Grand Junction it is highest at 11:58 am today — 2 minutes before clock noon.
At 108.6°W, Grand Junction sits 14 minutes of solar time west of Mountain Standard Time’s 105° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 14 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Grand Junction today
- Sunrise
- 6:55 am
- Sunset
- 5:01 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 6 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 55 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 6 minutes in Grand Junction, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 30 minutes, from 14 hours 55 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 25 minutes in December.
At 39.1°N that puts Grand Junction between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.