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9–17 in Rio de Janeiro 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 Rio de Janeiro
Home to roughly 6,747,815 residents, Rio de Janeiro is a major metropolitan hub in Brazil. Its terrain rests around 2 m of elevation.
For computers and clocks, Rio de Janeiro 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 Rio de Janeiro
The current local time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Rio de Janeiro uses the IANA time zone America/Sao_Paulo, currently UTC−3.
Whether Rio de Janeiro 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.
Rio de Janeiro is currently 1 hour ahead of New York.
Rio de Janeiro is currently 4 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Rio de Janeiro are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (-22.9068, -43.1729).
Brazil uses the BRL currency and the +55 international dialing code.
Rio de Janeiro sits at -22.9068° S, 43.1729° W, 2 m above sea level, in Brazil.