Local time · Roswell
What time is it in Roswell, New Mexico?
2:50:41AM
- Time zone
- MST
- America/Denver
- UTC offset
- −7:00
- Standard is −7:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 47,176
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Roswell
Roswell is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Roswell sits at 33.37°N, 104.53°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Roswell.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Roswell it is highest at 11:42 am today — 18 minutes before clock noon.
At 104.5°W, Roswell 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 Roswell today
- Sunrise
- 6:27 am
- Sunset
- 4:56 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 29 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 22 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 29 minutes in Roswell, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 26 minutes, from 14 hours 22 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 56 minutes in December.
At 33.4°N that puts Roswell between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.