Local time · Albuquerque
What time is it in Albuquerque, New Mexico?
2:50:25AM
- Time zone
- MST
- America/Denver
- UTC offset
- −7:00
- Standard is −7:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 560,326
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Albuquerque
Albuquerque is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Albuquerque sits at 35.10°N, 106.65°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Albuquerque.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Albuquerque it is highest at 11:50 am today — 10 minutes before clock noon.
At 106.6°W, Albuquerque sits almost exactly on Mountain Standard Time’s 105° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in Albuquerque today
- Sunrise
- 6:39 am
- Sunset
- 5:02 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 22 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 31 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 22 minutes in Albuquerque, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 44 minutes, from 14 hours 31 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 47 minutes in December.
At 35.1°N that puts Albuquerque between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.