Timetate
A world clock on a live 3D globe, turned to Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil · GMT-3
Rio de Janeiro runs on GMT-3. Subtract 3 hours from Coordinated Universal Time to get the current time in Rio de Janeiro.
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24h schedule
Sunrise
04:50
Sunset
18:25
Other cities
Rio de Janeiro is located in Brazil and uses the America/Sao_Paulo timezone, currently GMT-3 from UTC. Rio de Janeiro does not observe daylight saving time. Sunrise is at 04:50 and sunset at 18:25 local time. The coordinates of Rio de Janeiro are 22.91°S, 43.17°W.
Today Rio de Janeiro gets 13 hours 35 minutes of daylight. Solar noon — when the sun is highest — falls at 11:38, about 22 minutes before clock noon.
Right now Rio de Janeiro shares its GMT-3 offset with Halifax, São Paulo, Brasília, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Montevideo. Clocks in these places read the same, even where the calendar date differs.
Offices in Rio de Janeiro work Monday to Friday, typically 09:00–18:00 local time. Lunch is usually 12:30–13:30, and a meeting proposed inside it will be moved. The city's economy runs on oil and gas, tourism, media and ports, which is who you are most likely to be calling. More relaxed than São Paulo about time, with the same expectation that a call begins with conversation.
The dates that most often break a cross-border schedule are Carnival (Monday to Ash Wednesday, February or March), St Sebastian's Day (20 January, Rio only), Tiradentes Day (21 April) and New Year (31 December to 1 January). Expect slow replies during Carnival and the turn of the year.
| From | Gap | Call at (Rio de Janeiro time) |
|---|---|---|
| 🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte | same time | 09:00–17:00 |
| 🇧🇷 São Paulo | same time | 09:00–17:00 |
| 🇧🇷 Fortaleza | same time | 09:00–17:00 |
| 🇧🇷 Salvador | same time | 09:00–17:00 |
| 🇬🇧 London | +3h | 09:00–14:00 |
| 🇺🇸 New York | −1h | 10:00–17:00 |
| 🇸🇬 Singapore | +11h | 07:00–09:00 (early or late for one side) |
| 🇦🇪 Dubai | +7h | 09:00–10:00 |
Office hours taken as 09:00–17:00 on both sides. A row opens the meeting page for the two cities where one exists, otherwise the converter.
Rio de Janeiro is in the America/Sao_Paulo timezone, currently GMT-3.
No. Rio de Janeiro does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset is always GMT-3.
Rio de Janeiro is currently GMT-3 from UTC (GMT-3).
Right now Rio de Janeiro is 3 hours behind London and 1 hour ahead of New York. The gaps move by an hour when either side changes its clocks.
09:00 in Rio de Janeiro is 12:00 UTC today, because the city is GMT-3 from UTC.
Today the sun rises in Rio de Janeiro at 04:50 and sets at 18:25 local time. These times were calculated when this page was built and drift by a few minutes a week.
Times on this page were calculated on .