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Local time · Carlsbad

What time is it in Carlsbad, New Mexico?

2:50:53AM

Friday, November 13, 2026Mountain Standard Time · UTC−7:00 · standard time
Time zone
MST
America/Denver
UTC offset
−7:00
Standard is −7:00
Daylight saving
Not in force
Starts Sun, Mar 14
Population
31,999
City proper

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Daylight saving in Carlsbad

Carlsbad is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.

Carlsbad sits at 32.40°N, 104.24°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Carlsbad.

Clock time against sun time

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Carlsbad it is highest at 11:41 am today — 19 minutes before clock noon.

At 104.2°W, Carlsbad 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 Carlsbad today

Sunrise
6:24 am
Sunset
4:57 pm
Day length
10 hours 33 minutes
Longest day
14 hours 17 minutes

Today runs 10 hours 33 minutes in Carlsbad, and the day is getting shorter by 1 minute a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 16 minutes, from 14 hours 17 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours 1 minute in December.

At 32.4°N that puts Carlsbad between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.

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