What time is it in Missoula, Montana?
6:55:48 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Mountain Daylight Time, UTC−6:00.
- Time zone
- Mountain Daylight Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−6:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Population
- 78,204
Daylight saving in Missoula
Missoula is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Missoula sits at 46.87°N, 114.03°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Missoula.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Missoula it is highest at 1:27 pm today — 87 minutes after clock noon.
At 114.0°W, Missoula 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.
Daylight in Missoula today
- Sunrise
- 7:27 am
- Sunset
- 7:27 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours
- Longest day
- 15 hours 53 minutes
Today runs 12 hours in Missoula, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 7 hours 21 minutes, from 15 hours 53 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 31 minutes in December.
At 46.9°N that puts Missoula between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.