| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +4h | Becomes +3h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +5h | Becomes +4h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +7h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +12h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +13h | Becomes +14h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | −1h | Becomes −2h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −4h | Becomes −5h on 1 Nov |
Belo Horizonte, Brazil runs on UTC−3. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−3 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Belo Horizonte and New York is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 10:00–18:00 in Belo Horizonte lines up with 09:00–17:00 in New York. The time difference between Belo Horizonte and London is 4 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 5 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–14:00 in Belo Horizonte lines up with 13:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Belo Horizonte and Tokyo is 12 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with Tokyo, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Belo Horizonte.
Belo Horizonte (Brazil) is home to roughly 6.0M people. Today brings about 12.3 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:38, sunset at 17:53. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−3 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Southern Hemisphere, about 20° south of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Brazil
Capital
Brasília
Continent
South America
Time Zone
UTC−3 · America/Sao_Paulo
Coordinates
19.92°S, 43.94°W
Currency
BRL (R$)
Calling Code
+55
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Southern
Language
Portuguese
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Belo Horizonte was designed from scratch and inaugurated in 1897, the first modern planned city in Brazil, laid out on a grid crossed by diagonals. Brasília, sixty years later, followed the idea and got the fame.
The clock: Belo Horizonte keeps UTC−3. Oscar Niemeyer's first major commissions were built here at Pampulha in the 1940s, before Brasília existed.
Belo Horizonte lies at 43.9°W. Its time zone, UTC−3, is built around the 45°W meridian. The two very nearly coincide: solar noon — the moment the sun is highest — falls at about 11:56, which is as close to true solar time as a zone this wide can get. The zone holds UTC−3 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 December, with 13h 20m of daylight. The shortest is 22 June, with 10h 55m. The swing between them is 2h 25m. Inside the tropics the day length stays within a narrow band all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Belo Horizonte the sun comes up earliest on 27 November at 05:08, while the latest sunset waits until 18 January at 18:41. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Belo Horizonte that civil twilight runs about 22 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Belo Horizonte, Brazil is America/Sao_Paulo with a current UTC offset of UTC−3.
Belo Horizonte has an estimated population of 6.0M and is located at coordinates 19.92°S, 43.94°W.
Belo Horizonte gets 13h 20m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 55m on its shortest, averaging 12h 6m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Belo Horizonte falls at about 11:56 on UTC−3 standard time, because the city sits 1.1° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Brazil's First Modern Planned City: Belo Horizonte was designed from scratch and inaugurated in 1897, the first modern planned city in Brazil, laid out on a grid crossed by diagonals. Brasília, sixty years later, followed the idea and got the fame.