Local time · Highlands Ranch
What time is it in Highlands Ranch, Colorado?
2:50:19AM
- Time zone
- MST
- America/Denver
- UTC offset
- −7:00
- Standard is −7:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 103,444
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Highlands Ranch
Highlands Ranch is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Highlands Ranch sits at 39.54°N, 104.97°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Highlands Ranch.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Highlands Ranch it is highest at 11:44 am today — 16 minutes before clock noon.
At 105.0°W, Highlands Ranch 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 Highlands Ranch today
- Sunrise
- 6:42 am
- Sunset
- 4:46 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 4 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 58 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 4 minutes in Highlands Ranch, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 36 minutes, from 14 hours 58 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 22 minutes in December.
At 39.5°N that puts Highlands Ranch between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.