What time is it in Highlands Ranch, Colorado?

Highlands Ranch is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 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.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Highlands Ranch it is highest at 12:51 pm today — 51 minutes after clock noon.

At 105.0°W, Highlands Ranch 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.

Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in Highlands Ranch, and the day is getting shorter by 3 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.