Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona. With over 1.6 million residents at the 2020 census, Phoenix is the fifth-most populous city in the United States and the most populous state capital. The Phoenix metropolitan area, with an estimated 5.19 million residents, is the tenth-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. and the most populous in the Mountain states and Southwest. Phoenix is the county seat of Maricopa County in the Salt River Valley and Arizona Sun Corridor and, with an area of 517.9 square miles, is the largest city by area in Arizona and 11th-largest city by area in the United States.
Phoenix sits inside Vereinigte Staaten in the North America subregion, with Washington, D.C. as the national capital. The wider country profile covers about 340,110,988 people across roughly 9,525,067 km² and commonly used languages such as English while day-to-day pricing often runs through USD ($) For timekeeping, the city follows America/Phoenix (MST, UTC-07:00).
Phoenix still works as a strong timezone anchor even when the current page is the main curated reference for this exact zone-country combination. Closer regional neighbors include Central City, Encanto, Alhambra, Maryvale, Tempe Junction, so this page gives you a geographic cluster rather than pretending Phoenix sits alone on the map.
The nearest mapped city references are Central City (2 km), Encanto (3 km), Alhambra (8 km), Maryvale (11 km), Tempe Junction (13 km). That local-cluster view tends to be the fastest way to explain why schedules around Phoenix often spill into nearby commuter, logistics, and airport markets instead of stopping at one municipal boundary.
At the moment, the strongest live business-hour overlap is with New York (+3h), Los Angeles (+0h), São Paulo (+4h). The next important country scheduling signals are Truman Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth National Independence Day, so teams planning launches, support coverage, or travel around Phoenix should treat the holiday calendar as part of the timezone story rather than an afterthought.
Travel context matters too. The closest curated airport references from Phoenix currently include PHX Phoenix (6 km), SBD San Bernardino (483 km), SAN San Diego (483 km), ONT Ontario (515 km), and those links are often the fastest way to line up local time with departure windows, airport transfers, or arrival-side planning.
For quick commercial context, the latest cached foreign-exchange snapshot is 1 USD = 0.855 EUR · 1 USD = 0.740 GBP. That is not a trading screen, but it is helpful when people want a same-page sense of how Phoenix lines up with invoices, budgets, or partner conversations in other markets.
In 2025, A mass stabbing at a school in Nantes, France, leaves one person dead and three others wounded.. A date-specific history note like that gives the page a live daily element so returning crawls do not keep seeing the same frozen city copy.