Brazil Time Zones
Local current time in each time zone
Daylight Saving Time (DST) rules
There are 4 standard time zones in Brazil:
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BRT - Brasília (Standard) Time / BRST - Brasilia Summer Time
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FNT - Fernando de Noronha Archipelago Time
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ACT - Acre Time
The time in most of Brazil visited by foreign tourists is Brasília Time (BRT/BRST). Brasilia Standard Time is 3 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT-3 ) and is in use in Rio de Janeiro , São Paulo , Brasilia , Minas Gerais etc.
What is the time in major Brazilian cities? Choose from the dropdown below:
Which states observe Daylight Saving Time (DST) in Brazil?
Brasília Time with DST is used by: Brasilia (Federal District), Espírito Santo , Goiás , Minas Gerais , Paraná , Rio de Janeiro , Rio Grande do Sul , Santa Catarina , São Paulo , Tocantins
(BRT in winter / BRST in summer)
Standard Time: BRT = GMT-3
Daylight Saving Time: BRST = GMT-2
Brasília Time with no DST is used by: Alagoas , Amapá , Bahia , Ceará , Maranhão , Pará , Paraíba , Pernambuco , Piauí , Rio Grande do Norte , Rondônia , Sergipe
Standard Time: BRT = GMT-3
Does not operate Daylight Saving Time
Amazon Time with DST is used by: Mato Grosso , Mato Grosso do Sul
Standard Time: AMT = GMT-4
Daylight Saving Time: AMST = GMT-3
Amazon Time without DST is used by: Amazonas , Roraima
Standard Time: AMT = GMT-4
No Daylight Saving Time
Fernando de Noronha Time is used by the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago
Standard Time: FNT = GMT-2
No Daylight Saving Time
Acre Time is used by Acre
Standard Time: ACT = GMT-5
Does not operate Daylight Saving Time
Daylight Saving Time rules
In populous Brazil Summer Time comes into effect during a period determined annually. Clocks go forward one hour in most of the Brazilian southeast, while other areas of Brazil do not adopt Summer Time.
Read the latest official 2018 announcement regarding the start of Daylight Saving Time on the Brazilian Government site .
See as well Observatório Nacional de Brasil (National Observatory of Brazil) .
