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9–17 in Brasília vs UTC
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- Dia dos Pais9 Aug 2026
- Dia da Independência7 Sept 2026
- Dia de Eleição4 Oct 2026
- Nossa Senhora Aparecida12 Oct 2026
- Dia de Eleição25 Oct 2026
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About Brasília
Home to roughly 3,055,149 residents, Brasília is a populous capital of commerce in Brazil. The city sits at 1172 m above sea level, an elevated setting that moderates its summers.
Brasília keeps time on the America/Sao_Paulo IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. Sun behaviour here follows the tropical pattern of the southern hemisphere, with the steepest seasonal day-length swings around the equinoxes.
Visitors will find prices listed in BRL; phones reach Brazil via the +55 country code. This page exposes Brasília's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in Brasília
The current local time in Brasília, Brazil is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Brasília uses the IANA time zone America/Sao_Paulo, currently UTC−3.
Whether Brasília 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.
Brasília is currently 1 hour ahead of New York.
Brasília is currently 4 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Brasília are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (-15.7942, -47.8822).
Brazil uses the BRL currency and the +55 international dialing code.
Brasília sits at -15.7942° S, 47.8822° W, 1172 m above sea level, in Brazil.