Local time · Pocatello
What time is it in Pocatello, Idaho?
2:50:25AM
- Time zone
- MST
- America/Boise
- UTC offset
- −7:00
- Standard is −7:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 58,231
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Pocatello
Pocatello is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Pocatello sits at 42.87°N, 112.46°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Pocatello.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Pocatello it is highest at 12:14 pm today — 14 minutes after clock noon.
At 112.5°W, Pocatello sits 30 minutes of solar time west of Mountain Standard Time’s 105° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 30 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Pocatello today
- Sunrise
- 7:19 am
- Sunset
- 5:08 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 49 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 21 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 49 minutes in Pocatello, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 20 minutes, from 15 hours 21 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 1 minute in December.
At 42.9°N that puts Pocatello between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.