Current time in Rio Branco, Brazil right now

It is 7:38 pm in Rio Branco, Brazil 🇧🇷 right now, on Saturday, September 26, 2026. The city keeps America/Rio_Branco, which is UTC-5 at UTC-5, so Rio Branco is 5 hours behind of UTC, where it is 12:38 am. The sun rose in Rio Branco at 5:18 am and sets at 5:27 pm, which is 12 hours 9 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Rio Branco right now?

The time in Rio Branco, Brazil is 7:38 pm, 19:38 on a 24 hour clock, on Saturday September 26, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the America/Rio_Branco rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.

Rio Branco sits at 9.97 degrees south and 67.81 degrees west, inside the tropics, south of the equator and 1,109 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 75.0 degrees west, and the city itself is 7.2 degrees east of that line. Those 7.2 degrees are worth 28 minutes 46 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 11:23 am rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Rio Branco time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for Rio Branco, Brazil is America/Rio_Branco. Right now it is running at UTC-5 and the abbreviation in force is UTC-5. Rio Branco does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC-5 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Rio Branco ever needs a seasonal footnote.

Daylight hours in Rio Branco today

The sun rose in Rio Branco at 5:18 am and sets at 5:27 pm, which is 12 hours 9 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Rio Branco, is at 11:23 am, which is 37 minutes before clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.43 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 81.5 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the north.

The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Rio Branco, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Rio Branco is on the map

The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.

Time difference between Rio Branco and major cities

Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Rio Branco.

Best time to call Rio Branco

Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.

Other cities in Brazil

We cover 399 cities in Brazil. These are the ones nearest to Rio Branco, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on America/Rio_Branco time

Rio Branco is the only city in our catalogue on America/Rio_Branco. Other cities may share its UTC-5 offset today without sharing its rules, which is the distinction that matters the moment a clock change comes round.

Moon phase over Rio Branco tonight

The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 15.9 days into its cycle and about 99% lit. The next full moon falls on October 25, 2026 at 11:11 pm Rio Branco time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 10:49 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Rio Branco clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Rio Branco

There is no clock change scheduled in America/Rio_Branco within the next 400 days, so Rio Branco stays at UTC-5 for the whole of that stretch.

That makes Rio Branco an easy city to schedule against: a meeting fixed at a given hour here holds its relationship to UTC all year, and only the other end of the call can move.

How far Rio Branco is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Rio Branco is Porto Velho, Brazil at 449 km, and the furthest is Phan Rang-Thap Cham, Vietnam at 19,623 km, which is 98% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Rio Branco

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Rio Branco, Brazil and you come out at 9.97 degrees north, 112.19 degrees east. That point is near Phan Rang-Thap Cham, Vietnam. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Phan Rang-Thap Cham, Vietnam, 392 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 7:38 am on Sunday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 9.97 degrees south becomes 9.97 degrees north, and 67.81 degrees west becomes 112.19 degrees east. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Rio Branco is one of the exceptions, with dry land on the far side. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC+7, roughly twelve hours from Rio Branco, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Rio Branco

Today the sun rises in Rio Branco at 5:18 am and sets at 5:27 pm, giving 12 hours 9 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Rio Branco.

Sun and moon in Rio Branco today

The sun is up in Rio Branco for 12 hours 9 minutes today, from 5:18 am to 5:27 pm. The moon sets in Rio Branco at 5:03 am and comes up again at 5:33 pm. The next phase is the last quarter on October 3, 2026. The moon is full, or as near to it as makes no difference, and the whole of the face turned towards us is lit.

Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.

Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.

Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.

Prayer times in Rio Branco

Seven days from September 26, 2026, computed for Rio Branco, Brazil at 9.97 degrees south, 67.81 degrees west, on the clock of America/Rio_Branco. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.

Dhuhr is solar noon at Rio Branco, Brazil, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.

Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.

Qibla direction from Rio Branco

From Rio Branco, Brazil the qibla is 70.7 degrees on a true compass, which is east-northeast, or 19.3 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 12,225 km away, 7,596 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Rio Branco, Brazil to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.

The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Rio Branco, Brazil before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.

Rio Branco time now: common questions

What time is it in Rio Branco, Brazil right now?

7:38 pm on Saturday September 26, 2026. Rio Branco runs on UTC-5, UTC-5.

What time zone is Rio Branco in?

America/Rio_Branco, currently UTC-5 at UTC-5. 1 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Rio Branco?

UTC-5 at this instant. It is UTC-5 all year round, with no seasonal change.

Does Rio Branco observe daylight saving time?

No. Rio Branco stays on UTC-5 for the whole year.

How many hours ahead or behind is Rio Branco of New York?

Rio Branco is 1 hour behind of New York, where it is 8:38 pm right now.

What time does the sun set in Rio Branco today?

5:27 pm, after a sunrise at 5:18 am and 12 hours 9 minutes of daylight.

What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Rio Branco?

9.97 degrees north, 112.19 degrees east, near Phan Rang-Thap Cham, Vietnam.

When is the best time to call Rio Branco from London?

Between 9:00 am and 12:00 pm in Rio Branco, which is 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm in London.

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