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9–17 in Fortaleza 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 Fortaleza
Home to roughly 2,686,612 residents, Fortaleza is a major metropolitan hub in Brazil. Its terrain rests around 16 m of elevation.
The America/Fortaleza zone governs civic time in Fortaleza; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. Sun behaviour here follows the equatorial 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. This page exposes Fortaleza'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 Fortaleza
The current local time in Fortaleza, Brazil is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Fortaleza uses the IANA time zone America/Fortaleza, currently UTC−3.
Whether Fortaleza observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (America/Fortaleza) is the source of truth.
Fortaleza is currently 1 hour ahead of New York.
Fortaleza is currently 4 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Fortaleza are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (-3.7172, -38.5433).
Brazil uses the BRL currency and the +55 international dialing code.
Fortaleza sits at -3.7172° S, 38.5433° W, 16 m above sea level, in Brazil.