Local time · Helena
What time is it in Helena, Montana?
2:50:40AM
- Time zone
- MST
- America/Denver
- UTC offset
- −7:00
- Standard is −7:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 34,729
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Helena
Helena is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Helena sits at 46.60°N, 112.02°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Helena.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Helena it is highest at 12:12 pm today — 12 minutes after clock noon.
At 112.0°W, Helena sits 28 minutes of solar time west of Mountain Standard Time’s 105° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 28 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Helena today
- Sunrise
- 7:27 am
- Sunset
- 4:56 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 29 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 50 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 29 minutes in Helena, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 7 hours 17 minutes, from 15 hours 50 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 34 minutes in December.
At 46.6°N that puts Helena between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.