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Time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil now

12:58:06AM

Friday, October 2, 2026

International Day of Non-Violence - to commemorate the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi

Sun: ↑ 05:29AM ↓ 05:49PM (12h 20m) - More info - Make Rio de Janeiro time default - Add to favourite locations

Time zone info for Rio de Janeiro

UTC -3

Brasília Time (BRT)
now 1 hour ahead of New York

The time in Rio de Janeiro is 2 hours ahead of the time in New York when New York is on standard time, and 1 hour ahead of the time in New York when New York is on daylight saving time.
Rio de Janeiro has not had daylight saving time since 2019.
Latest time zone news: No DST in Brazil in 2019
The IANA time zone identifier for Rio de Janeiro is America/Sao_Paulo.

Time difference
from Rio de Janeiro

Los Angeles	−4 hours	−4 hours
Chicago	−2 hours	−2 hours
New York	−1 hours	−1 hours
Toronto	−1 hours	−1 hours
São Paulo	0
UTC	+3 hours
Lagos	+4 hours
London	+4 hours
Johannesburg	+5 hours
Paris	+5 hours
Zurich	+5 hours
Cairo	+6 hours
Istanbul	+6 hours
Moscow	+6 hours
Dubai	+7 hours
Mumbai	+8.5 hours
Hong Kong	+11 hours
Shanghai	+11 hours
Singapore	+11 hours
Tokyo	+12 hours
Sydney	+13 hours

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Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Rio de Janeiro

Sunrise: 05:29AM
Sunset: 05:49PM
Day length: 12h 20m
Solar noon: 11:39AM
The current local time in Rio de Janeiro is 21 minutes behind apparent solar time.

Rio de Janeiro on the map

Location: Brazil
Latitude: -22.25. Longitude: -42.50
Population: 17,463,000

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