What time is it in Parker, Colorado?
6:04:20 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
- 65,473
Daylight saving in Parker
Parker is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Parker sits at 39.51°N, 104.78°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Parker.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Parker it is highest at 12:50 pm today — 50 minutes after clock noon.
At 104.8°W, Parker 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 Parker today
- Sunrise
- 6:49 am
- Sunset
- 6:51 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 1 minute
- Longest day
- 14 hours 58 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in Parker, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 35 minutes, from 14 hours 58 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 23 minutes in December.
At 39.5°N that puts Parker between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.