Local time · Moscow
What time is it in Moscow, Idaho?
1:50:14AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 26,894
- City proper
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About this clock
Moscow does not keep Idaho's usual time
Most of Idaho is on Mountain Standard Time, but Moscow keeps Pacific Standard Time — 1 hour behind the rest of the state. This is the kind of thing that catches people out, and it is why the zone is resolved from the city’s own coordinates rather than assumed from the state.
Moscow is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Moscow sits at 46.73°N, 117.00°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Moscow.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Moscow it is highest at 11:32 am today — 28 minutes before clock noon.
At 117.0°W, Moscow sits 12 minutes of solar time east of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 12 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Moscow today
- Sunrise
- 6:48 am
- Sunset
- 4:16 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 28 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 51 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 28 minutes in Moscow, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 7 hours 19 minutes, from 15 hours 51 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 32 minutes in December.
At 46.7°N that puts Moscow between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.