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- Proclamação da República15 Nov 2026
- Dia da Consciência Negra20 Nov 2026
- Noite de Natal24 Dec 2026
- Natal25 Dec 2026
- Véspera de Ano Novo31 Dec 2026
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About Belo Horizonte
Home to roughly 2,521,564 residents, Belo Horizonte is a populous capital of commerce in Brazil. Its terrain rests around 852 m of elevation.
For computers and clocks, Belo Horizonte is anchored to the America/Sao_Paulo time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. Sun behaviour here follows the tropical pattern of the southern hemisphere, with the steepest seasonal day-length swings around the equinoxes.
Brazil's currency is BRL and its calling prefix is +55. 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 Belo Horizonte
The current local time in Belo Horizonte, Brazil is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Belo Horizonte uses the IANA time zone America/Sao_Paulo, currently UTC−3.
Whether Belo Horizonte 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.
Belo Horizonte is currently 2 hours ahead of New York.
Belo Horizonte is currently 3 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Belo Horizonte are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (-19.9167, -43.9345).
Brazil uses the BRL currency and the +55 international dialing code.
Belo Horizonte sits at -19.9167° S, 43.9345° W, 852 m above sea level, in Brazil.