Time in São Paulo
Brazil · America/Sao Paulo · latitude -23.55°
Reading your clock…
São Paulo never changes its clocks
São Paulo stays on UTC-03:00 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between São Paulo 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.
Same clock, different sky: Rio de Janeiro share America/Sao_Paulo. Sunrise and sunset differ between them because latitude does, even though the clock does not.
Time difference from São Paulo
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 | 4 hours ahead | +3h / +4h |
| New York | 1 hour behind | −2h / −1h |
| Los Angeles | 4 hours behind | −5h / −4h |
| Chicago | 2 hours behind | −3h / −2h |
| Toronto | 1 hour behind | −2h / −1h |
| Paris | 5 hours ahead | +4h / +5h |
| Berlin | 5 hours ahead | +4h / +5h |
| Dubai | 7 hours ahead | constant |
| Mumbai | 8 hours 30 minutes ahead | constant |
| Singapore | 11 hours ahead | constant |
| Hong Kong | 11 hours ahead | constant |
| Tokyo | 12 hours ahead | constant |
| Sydney | 13 hours ahead | +13h / +14h |
| Auckland | 15 hours ahead | +15h / +16h |
| UTC | 3 hours ahead | constant |
Daylight in São Paulo through the year
From about 10.7 hours in June to 13.6 hours in December. 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 | 05:30 | 18:52 | 13h 22m |
| February | 05:51 | 18:37 | 12h 46m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 06:16 | 17:42 | 11h 26m |
| May | 06:29 | 17:24 | 10h 55m |
| June | 06:41 | 17:22 | 10h 41m |
| July | 06:41 | 17:33 | 10h 52m |
| August | 06:22 | 17:46 | 11h 24m |
| September | 05:52 | 17:56 | 12h 4m |
| October | 05:23 | 18:07 | 12h 44m |
| November | 05:07 | 18:27 | 13h 20m |
| December | 05:11 | 18:46 | 13h 35m |
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 São Paulo
What time zone is São Paulo in?
São Paulo uses the IANA time zone America/Sao_Paulo, a fixed UTC-03:00 with no daylight saving. The same zone covers Rio de Janeiro.
Does São Paulo observe daylight saving time?
No. São Paulo stays on UTC-03:00 all year. That does not mean the gap between São Paulo 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 São Paulo 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 3 hours ahead, then 4 hours ahead across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does São Paulo get?
Around 13.6 hours at the longest, in December, and about 10.7 hours at the shortest, in June. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from São Paulo's latitude of -23.55° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.