What time is it in Butte, Montana?

Butte is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 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.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Butte it is highest at 1:22 pm today — 82 minutes after clock noon.

At 112.7°W, Butte 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.

Today runs 12 hours 1 minute 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.