Local time · Butte
What time is it in Butte, Montana?
2:50:10AM
- Time zone
- MST
- America/Denver
- UTC offset
- −7:00
- Standard is −7:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 35,480
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Butte
Butte is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Butte sits at 45.90°N, 112.66°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Butte.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Butte it is highest at 12:14 pm today — 14 minutes after clock noon.
At 112.7°W, Butte sits 31 minutes of solar time west of Mountain Standard Time’s 105° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 31 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Butte today
- Sunrise
- 7:28 am
- Sunset
- 5:01 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 33 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 44 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 33 minutes in Butte, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 7 hours 5 minutes, from 15 hours 44 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 39 minutes in December.
At 45.9°N that puts Butte between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.