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Live local time
Fortaleza, Brasile
03:47:57 AMWednesday, April 29, 2026 · America/Fortaleza

Fortaleza
Capital city of Ceará, Brazil
Ora locale attuale
03:47:57 AM
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Fuso orario
America/Fortaleza
America/Fortaleza · UTC
Prossima festività
Labour Day
venerdì 1 maggio 2026 · Public
Sovrapposizione lavorativa ora
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Fortaleza right now
Aeroporto più vicino
FOR
Pinto Martins International Airport · 7 km
Aeroporti indicizzati
15
Curated airport references available for Brasile
Snapshot at render time: 03:47:57 AM on Wednesday, April 29, 2026 in Fortaleza (UTC, America/Fortaleza).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Current weather
23°C, Light drizzle
Feels like 27°C · Humidity 96% · Wind 7 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
05:31 AM to 05:31 PM
Day length 12h 0m · Solar noon 11:31 AM
Next country holiday
Labour Day
venerdì 1 maggio 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Fortaleza local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Islamic New Year (Muharram) 2026
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48 days to go
Vesak / Buddha Purnima 2026
religiousvenerdì 1 maggio 2026
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2 days to go
EU Digital Markets Act — First Review Report
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4 days to go
WB, Kerala, TN, Assam, Puducherry Assembly Election Counting
electionlunedì 4 maggio 2026
5 days to go
CAA Supreme Court Final Constitutional Hearing
judicialmartedì 5 maggio 2026
6 days to go
Population
2.4M
Coordinates
-3.72, -38.54
Timezone
America/Fortaleza
Aeroporti indicizzati
15
Capital
Brasília
Languages
Portuguese
Currency
BRL (R$)
Country area
8,515,767 km²
Local time in Fortaleza runs on the America/Fortaleza clock; with roughly 2.4M residents the city (rank #5 by population in this dataset) is a working reference point inside Brasile.
Geographically, Fortaleza is at 3.72°S, 38.54°W — that places it in the Equatorial Hemisphere's deep tropics, about 413 km from the equator, with year-round daylight that barely shifts between seasons.
Today the sun rises around 05:31 AM and sets around 05:31 PM in Fortaleza — about 12h 0m of daylight. Brasile stays on standard time here, so UTC is stable through the year.
Caucaia (12 km from Fortaleza) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with 15 curated airport pages indexed for Brasile.
On 2026-05-01, Labour Day is the next holiday flag for Fortaleza — worth blocking out for launches or logistics.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Timezone
IANA Zone
America/Fortaleza
UTC Offset
UTC
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Quarter
Q2
Other cities in this timezone
London
+4h
New York
-1h
Los Angeles
-4h
Dubai
+7h
Singapore
+11h
Tokyo
+12h
Sydney
+13h
São Paulo
+0h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Fortaleza.
Fortaleza is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. It is Brazil's 4th largest city—Fortaleza surpassed Salvador in 2024 census with a population of slightly over 2.5 million. Currently, it is the eleventh richest city in the country by gross domestic product and the richest in the Northeast, with a GDP of about 73 billion reais. It forms the core of the Fortaleza metropolitan area, which is home to almost 4 million people.
From Fortaleza the nearest of our reference hubs are São Paulo (~2,370 km), New York (~6,114 km), London (~7,134 km), while Tokyo sits about 16,457 km away — useful framing when someone needs a feel for whether a meeting is a regional hop or an intercontinental call.
Fortaleza sits inside Brasile — the South America subregion, capital Brasília, languages Portuguese, currency BRL (R$).
Caucaia (12 km), Maracanaú (20 km), Eusébio (22 km), Maranguape (25 km) are the nearest cities WorldClockTools indexes around Fortaleza — that's the cluster to use when scheduling spills past the city limits.
Upcoming country holiday signals around Fortaleza: Labour Day, Corpus Christi, Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Brasile.
Closest curated airport references from Fortaleza: FOR Fortaleza (7 km), REC Recife (633 km), MCZ Maceió (712 km).
In 2015, A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
São Paulo is one of the strongest Latin American anchors for market, finance, and remote-team overlap pages.
Pinto Martins International AirportFOR
Fortaleza · 7 km from Fortaleza
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Recife/Guararapes - Gilberto Freyre International AirportREC
Recife · 633 km from Fortaleza
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 34m
Zumbi dos Palmares International AirportMCZ
Maceió · 712 km from Fortaleza
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 40m
Deputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International AirportSSA
Salvador · 1022 km from Fortaleza
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 4m
Val de Cans/Júlio Cezar Ribeiro International AirportBEL
Belém · 1134 km from Fortaleza
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 12m
Exchange snapshot
1 BRL = 0.171 EUR · 1 BRL = 0.148 GBP · 1 BRL = 0.200 USD
As of 2026-04-28
On this day
2015: A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
2013: A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.
2013: National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board.
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 07:47 AM | +4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 02:47 AM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 11:47 PM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 10:47 AM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 02:47 PM | +11h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 03:47 PM | +12h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 04:47 PM | +13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 03:47 AM | +0h | Check the overlap widget below |
Pinto Martins International AirportFOR
Fortaleza · 7 km away
Recife/Guararapes - Gilberto Freyre International AirportREC
Recife · 633 km away
Zumbi dos Palmares International AirportMCZ
Maceió · 712 km away
Deputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International AirportSSA
Salvador · 1022 km away
Val de Cans/Júlio Cezar Ribeiro International AirportBEL
Belém · 1134 km away
Fortaleza si trova nel fuso orario America/Fortaleza (), con uno scostamento UTC di .
Fortaleza non sta attualmente osservando l'ora legale.
Lo scostamento UTC attuale per Fortaleza è UTC.
Fortaleza sits at 3.72°S, 38.54°W in Brasile, with about 2.4M residents (rank #5 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Fortaleza is São Paulo, about 2,370 km away as the crow flies.
Caucaia is the closest indexed city, roughly 12 km from Fortaleza.
Pinto Martins International Airport (FOR) is the closest curated airport reference, about 7 km from Fortaleza.
Labour Day is the next upcoming holiday in Brasile, on venerdì 1 maggio 2026.