Current time in Rio de Janeiro

Local time in Rio de Janeiro

The time in Rio de Janeiro is 3 hours behind UTC and 2 hours ahead of Columbus. The timezone in Rio de Janeiro is Brasília time (BRT). Rio de Janeiro is not using Daylight Saving Time (DST) but used to in the past. The last DST transition was in 2019.

Details for the time in Rio de Janeiro

Current time	12:05 p.m.
Time zone	Brasília time (BRT)
IANA time zone	America/Sao_Paulo
Your time difference	2 hours ahead of Columbus
UTC time difference	UTC-3 3 hours behind UTC

Rio de Janeiro Daylight Saving Time (DST)