Time in Phoenix
United States · America/Phoenix · latitude 33.45°
Reading your clock…
Phoenix never changes its clocks
Phoenix stays on UTC-07:00 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Phoenix and a city that does observe daylight saving still moves twice a year, because the other end moved. A recurring call can drift by an hour without anything changing here at all.
Time difference from Phoenix
Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.
| City | Difference now | Across the year |
|---|---|---|
| London | 8 hours ahead | +7h / +8h |
| New York | 3 hours ahead | +2h / +3h |
| Los Angeles | the same time | −1h / 0 |
| Chicago | 2 hours ahead | +1h / +2h |
| Toronto | 3 hours ahead | +2h / +3h |
| Paris | 9 hours ahead | +8h / +9h |
| Berlin | 9 hours ahead | +8h / +9h |
| Dubai | 11 hours ahead | constant |
| Mumbai | 12 hours 30 minutes ahead | constant |
| Singapore | 15 hours ahead | constant |
| Hong Kong | 15 hours ahead | constant |
| Tokyo | 16 hours ahead | constant |
| Sydney | 17 hours ahead | +17h / +18h |
| Auckland | 19 hours ahead | +19h / +20h |
| São Paulo | 4 hours ahead | constant |
| UTC | 7 hours ahead | constant |
Daylight in Phoenix through the year
From about 9.9 hours in December to 14.4 hours in June. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 07:03 | 17:20 | 10h 17m |
| February | 06:40 | 17:50 | 11h 10m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 05:24 | 18:35 | 13h 11m |
| May | 04:57 | 18:57 | 14h 0m |
| June | 04:51 | 19:13 | 14h 22m |
| July | 05:05 | 19:09 | 14h 4m |
| August | 05:26 | 18:41 | 13h 15m |
| September | 05:47 | 18:00 | 12h 13m |
| October | 06:09 | 17:21 | 11h 12m |
| November | 06:37 | 16:56 | 10h 19m |
| December | 07:00 | 16:56 | 9h 56m |
Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.
Questions
About time in Phoenix
What time zone is Phoenix in?
Phoenix uses the IANA time zone America/Phoenix, a fixed UTC-07:00 with no daylight saving.
Does Phoenix observe daylight saving time?
No. Phoenix stays on UTC-07:00 all year. That does not mean the gap between Phoenix and other cities is fixed, though: when a city that does observe daylight saving changes its clocks, the difference between you and them moves even though nothing changed here.
Why does the time difference to Phoenix keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions. London is a clear example: it sits 7 hours ahead, then 8 hours ahead across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Phoenix get?
Around 14.4 hours at the longest, in June, and about 9.9 hours at the shortest, in December. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Phoenix's latitude of 33.45° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.