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9–17 in São Paulo vs UTC
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- Corpo de Deus4 Jun 2026
- Dia dos Namorados12 Jun 2026
- Dia dos Pais9 Aug 2026
- Dia da Independência7 Sept 2026
- Dia de Eleição4 Oct 2026
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About São Paulo
Home to roughly 12,325,232 residents, São Paulo is a sprawling megacity in Brazil. The city sits at 760 m above sea level, an elevated setting that moderates its summers.
For computers and clocks, São Paulo is anchored to the America/Sao_Paulo time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. Lying in the southern hemisphere within the subtropical belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (-23.55°).
Visitors will find prices listed in BRL; phones reach Brazil via the +55 country code. Beyond the live clock, every datapoint on this page — sun events, holidays, time-zone offsets — is also available as machine-readable JSON, ready for agents and integrations.
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Questions about time in São Paulo
The current local time in São Paulo, Brazil is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
São Paulo uses the IANA time zone America/Sao_Paulo, currently UTC−3.
Whether São Paulo observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (America/Sao_Paulo) is the source of truth.
São Paulo is currently 1 hour ahead of New York.
São Paulo is currently 4 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for São Paulo are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (-23.5505, -46.6333).
Brazil uses the BRL currency and the +55 international dialing code.
São Paulo sits at -23.5505° S, 46.6333° W, 760 m above sea level, in Brazil.