Current time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
5:46:33 AM
Monday, October 26, 2026
Rio de Janeiro is on Brasilia Standard Time, UTC−3. It doesn't change its clocks: the time zone database has no changes scheduled for the next 12 months.
About 6.7 million people live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Scheduled flights use Santos Dumont Airport (SDU, 2 km away) and Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG, 13 km away).
- Time zone
- America/Sao_Paulo
- UTC offset now
- UTC−3
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Sunrise today
- 5:11 AM
- Sunset today
- 6:01 PM
- Daylight
- 12 h 49 min
- Population
- 6,747,815
- Currency
- Real (BRL)
- Dialing code
- +55
- Languages (country)
- Portuguese, Spanish
- Airports
- SDU 2 km · GIG 13 km
Cities near Rio de Janeiro
- São Paulo5:46 AM · ±0 h360 km away
- Asunción5:46 AM · ±0 h1,491 km away
- Montevideo5:46 AM · ±0 h1,836 km away
- Buenos Aires5:46 AM · ±0 h1,967 km away
- La Paz4:46 AM · −1 h2,705 km away
- Manaus4:46 AM · −1 h2,853 km away
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