It is 3:46 am in America/Phoenix

America/Phoenix is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Phoenix in the United States. It is running at UTC-7 right now, abbreviated MST, and the local date is Friday, September 25, 2026. The zone never moves its clocks.

What time is it in America/Phoenix right now

3:46 am on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 03:46. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is a whole 7 hours behind UTC, so a UTC timestamp converts here by changing the hour and leaving the minutes exactly as they are.

10 other zones read UTC-7 at this instant. They are interchangeable as a clock reading today and not as an identifier: storing UTC-7 instead of America/Phoenix throws away the rule that decides what they all do at the next transition.

The UTC offset of America/Phoenix

An offset of UTC-7 names the meridian 105.0 degrees west. Phoenix, AZ actually sits at 112.07 degrees west, which is 7.1 degrees west of it, so the sun there runs about 28 minutes behind the clock before daylight saving is even considered. Zone boundaries are drawn by borders and by convenience, not by longitude, and this is the size of the gap that produces.

Because this zone never moves its clocks, UTC-7 is the answer on every day of the year. That makes it an easy zone to schedule against, with the caveat that the other end of the call may still be moving its own clocks, so the gap between the two changes even though nothing changed here.

Daylight saving in America/Phoenix

America/Phoenix does not observe daylight saving. It sits at UTC-7 in January and reads UTC-7 again in July, so a gap worked out against it today is still right in six months. It has not moved its clocks in any year since 1970 that this page can see.

The database holds no clock change for America/Phoenix in 2025, 2026 or 2027, so there is no transition table to print. The offset shown at the top of this page is the offset on every date in those three years.

How the offset of America/Phoenix has changed since 1970

Read on 1 January and 1 July of each year, which is the cheapest pair of samples that shows both the winter offset and whether the clocks moved that summer. Nothing has changed: America/Phoenix has been on the same pair of readings for all 57 years sampled. A rule change that began and ended between July and the following January is invisible to this sampling, so the table is a shape rather than a complete edit history.

No summer shift appears in any year sampled, so a piece of software that treats America/Phoenix as a fixed offset happens to be right, and is right by luck rather than by design: the same assumption applied to a neighbouring zone breaks twice a year.

Countries and regions that use America/Phoenix

One country uses America/Phoenix: the United States, which keeps 29 zones in total and has a population of about 334,910,000.

Inside the United States, one state uses this identifier: Arizona.

Cities in the America/Phoenix time zone

The 16 cities this site covers inside America/Phoenix, each with a live clock and today's sunrise and sunset worked out from its own coordinate. They share an identifier, so they share a clock reading to the minute, and they do not share a sunrise: that is set by latitude and longitude.

The sun against the clock in America/Phoenix

Worked out for Phoenix, AZ, the city this site covers inside the zone, at 33.45 degrees north, 112.07 degrees west. The sun rises at 6:19 am and sets at 6:21 pm, giving 12 hours 2 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 12:20 pm, which is 20 minutes after clock noon.

That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: Phoenix, AZ sitting 7.1 degrees west of the UTC-7 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 8.4 minutes ahead of mean time, and no daylight saving at all, because this zone does not use it. Full sunrise and sunset times for Phoenix.

Convert America/Phoenix to another time zone

The converter is keyed on the abbreviations people type rather than on identifiers. America/Phoenix is at UTC-7 right now, the same reading as PST, so these pages answer the same question for it today. They will diverge if the two zones ever adopt different daylight saving rules, which is exactly why the identifier is the thing worth storing.

Questions about America/Phoenix

What time is it in America/Phoenix right now?

3:46 am on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.

What is the UTC offset of America/Phoenix?

UTC-7 at this instant, on every day of the year.

Does America/Phoenix observe daylight saving time?

No. It stays at UTC-7 all year.

What is the abbreviation for America/Phoenix?

MST at this instant. It does not change, because the offset does not.

Which countries use America/Phoenix?

United States.

Why store America/Phoenix instead of UTC-7?

Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone has one offset today and no guarantee of keeping it, and 10 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC-7 cannot tell them apart; a record storing America/Phoenix keeps working through every future rule change.

Other time zones in the Americas

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