Local time · Rio Rancho
What time is it in Rio Rancho, New Mexico?
2:51:03AM
- Time zone
- MST
- America/Denver
- UTC offset
- −7:00
- Standard is −7:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 112,524
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Rio Rancho
Rio Rancho is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Rio Rancho sits at 35.29°N, 106.70°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Rio Rancho.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Rio Rancho it is highest at 11:51 am today — 9 minutes before clock noon.
At 106.7°W, Rio Rancho 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 Rio Rancho today
- Sunrise
- 6:40 am
- Sunset
- 5:01 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 22 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 32 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 22 minutes in Rio Rancho, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 46 minutes, from 14 hours 32 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 46 minutes in December.
At 35.3°N that puts Rio Rancho between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.