Current time in America/Phoenix

What is America/Phoenix?

America/Phoenix is an IANA time zone identifier, which means it describes a real set of civil-time rules rather than just a fixed UTC offset. That distinction matters for scheduling: the offset shown today is UTC-07:00, but zones with seasonal clock changes can move by one hour when daylight saving starts or ends. Calendar apps, flight systems, and meeting schedulers should store America/Phoenix instead of a bare offset so future events follow the local rule.

Phoenix is the main curated city in this zone. The zone is most useful when you need to answer practical questions such as whether a colleague is inside business hours, how a release time appears locally, or which offset to use in a cron schedule. On Zeitful, America/Phoenix pages combine the live clock with city context and DST notes so you do not have to jump between a map, a converter, and a legal time-change table.

United States is marked regional in the 2026 DST tracker. Most states observe DST; Hawaii and most of Arizona do not. The Sunshine Protection Act has been reintroduced but is not enacted. For one-off conversions, today's offset is enough. For recurring meetings, payroll deadlines, transport bookings, or product launches, use the IANA zone name and let tzdata calculate each future date. That is the safest way to handle places where the January and July offsets differ.