What time is it in Lakewood, Colorado?
6:56:01 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
- 156,868
Daylight saving in Lakewood
Lakewood is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Lakewood sits at 39.70°N, 105.12°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Lakewood.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Lakewood it is highest at 12:52 pm today — 52 minutes after clock noon.
At 105.1°W, Lakewood 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 Lakewood today
- Sunrise
- 6:51 am
- Sunset
- 6:52 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 1 minute
- Longest day
- 14 hours 59 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in Lakewood, and the day is getting shorter by 3 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 39.7°N that puts Lakewood between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.