What time is it in Gillette, Wyoming?
6:53:16 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
- 33,846
Daylight saving in Gillette
Gillette is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Gillette sits at 44.27°N, 105.50°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Gillette.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Mountain Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Gillette it is highest at 12:53 pm today — 53 minutes after clock noon.
At 105.5°W, Gillette 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 Gillette today
- Sunrise
- 6:53 am
- Sunset
- 6:54 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 1 minute
- Longest day
- 15 hours 31 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 1 minute in Gillette, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 6 hours 40 minutes, from 15 hours 31 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 51 minutes in December.
At 44.3°N that puts Gillette between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.