Indexed entity
Belo Horizonte is the belo-horizonte-BR record in Brazil: country slug brazil, city slug belo-horizonte, ISO BR, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Sao_Paulo.
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Live local time
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
07:45:12 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · America/Sao_Paulo
Quick answer
It is currently 07:45:12 AM (BRT, UTC-03:00) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil — Early morning.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
17°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
25°C
16°C
Wed
27°C
16°C
Thu
27°C
16°C
27% rain
In 2 days
Corpus Christi
Thu, Jun 4, 2026
PublicIn 97 days
Dia da Independência (Independence Day)
Mon, Sep 7, 2026
PublicIn 132 days
Nossa Senhora Aparecida (Our Lady of Aparecida)
Mon, Oct 12, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Brazilian Real
1 USD = 5.016 BRL
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
06:23 AM
Sunset
05:23 PM
Day length
10h 60m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Belo Horizonte, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:45 AM UTC.
Current local time
07:45:12 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
BRT
America/Sao_Paulo · UTC-03:00
Next holiday
Corpus Christi
Thursday, June 4, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 7
Reference markets are overlapping with Belo Horizonte right now
Nearest airport
CNF
Tancredo Neves International Airport · 32 km
Indexed airports
15
Curated airport references available for Brazil
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 07:45 GMT-3
No reference-city overlap right now
Belo Horizonte is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC-03:00
Zone label
GMT-3
London
11:45 AM / +4h
New York
06:45 AM / -1h
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -4h
Schedule risk
Corpus Christi on Thursday, June 4, 2026
Travel cue
CNF Belo Horizonte, 32 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:23 AM to 05:23 PM, with solar noon around 11:53 AM and total daylight of 11h 0m.
Mapped location
19.92°S, 43.94°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:45 AM / +4h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:45 AM / -1h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -4h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:45 PM / +7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:45 PM / +11h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Belo Horizonte.
CNF · Tancredo Neves International Airport
Belo Horizonte
GIG · Rio Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport
Rio De Janeiro
SDU · Santos Dumont Airport
Rio de Janeiro
GRU · São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport
São Paulo
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use America/Sao_Paulo for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC-03:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC-03:00.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Belo Horizonte right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
Corpus Christi on Thursday, June 4, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: CNF Belo Horizonte, 32 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for America/Sao_Paulo. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Belo Horizonte has no near-term DST change in view, but Corpus Christi can still affect office coverage and local response times.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Belo Horizonte.
Canonical route
/time/brazil/belo-horizonte/
Catalog identity
belo-horizonte-BR · BR · America
Coordinate cell
19.92°S, 43.94°W · lat -19.921 · lon -43.938 · cell -1992:-4394
Population record
2,721,564 residents · country rank 3
Zone snapshot
America/Sao_Paulo · GMT-3 · UTC-03:00
January / July offsets
UTC-03:00 / UTC-03:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · 341 km
Nearest world hub
São Paulo · 490 km
Closest airport references
CNF Belo Horizonte 32 km · GIG Rio De Janeiro 329 km · SDU Rio de Janeiro 342 km · GRU São Paulo 470 km
Zone peer roster
São Paulo, Brazil · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Salvador, Brazil
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Belo Horizonte: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Belo Horizonte is the belo-horizonte-BR record in Brazil: country slug brazil, city slug belo-horizonte, ISO BR, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Sao_Paulo.
19.92°S, 43.94°W; Southern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band -20 and longitude band -44; exact decimal pair -19.92083, -43.93778.
Brazil: official name Federative Republic of Brazil; capital Brasília; region Americas; subregion South America; country population 213,421,037; area 8,515,767 km²; languages Portuguese; currencies BRL Brazilian real. This is the country layer behind the Belo Horizonte clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Brazil: Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is also the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh-largest by population, with over 213 million people. Brazil is a federation composed of 26 states and a Federal District, which hosts the capital, Brasília. Its most populous city is São Paulo, followed by Rio de Janeiro. Brazil has the most Portuguese speakers in the world and is the only country in the Americas where Portuguese is an official language. Source: Wikipedia.
Rio de Janeiro [rio-de-janeiro-BR, BR, America/Sao_Paulo, 341 km]; São Paulo [sao-paulo-BR, BR, America/Sao_Paulo, 490 km]; Salvador [salvador-BR, BR, America/Sao_Paulo, 966 km]; Campo Grande [campo-grande-BR, BR, America/Manaus, 1119 km]; Ciudad del Este [ciudad-del-este-PY, PY, America/Asuncion, 1261 km]; Cuiabá [cuiaba-BR, BR, America/Manaus, 1374 km]; Capiatá [capiata-PY, PY, America/Asuncion, 1511 km]; San Lorenzo [san-lorenzo-PY, PY, America/Asuncion, 1516 km]
Belo Horizonte is part of this indexed country cluster: São Paulo [sao-paulo-BR, America/Sao_Paulo, pop 12,400,232]; Rio de Janeiro [rio-de-janeiro-BR, America/Sao_Paulo, pop 6,747,815]; Belo Horizonte [belo-horizonte-BR, America/Sao_Paulo, pop 2,721,564]; Salvador [salvador-BR, America/Sao_Paulo, pop 2,711,840]; Manaus [manaus-BR, America/Manaus, pop 2,219,580]; Campo Grande [campo-grande-BR, America/Manaus, pop 906,092]; Cuiabá [cuiaba-BR, America/Manaus, pop 618,124]; Porto Velho [porto-velho-BR, America/Manaus, pop 548,952]; Rio Branco [rio-branco-BR, America/Rio_Branco, pop 419,452]; Cruzeiro do Sul [cruzeiro-do-sul-BR, America/Rio_Branco, pop 91,888].
São Paulo 490 km; New York 7,424 km; London 9,012 km; Los Angeles 9,881 km; Dubai 11,824 km; Sydney 13,822 km; Singapore 15,947 km; Tokyo 18,228 km
CNF Tancredo Neves International Airport in Belo Horizonte [BR, 32 km]; GIG Rio Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport in Rio De Janeiro [BR, 329 km]; SDU Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro [BR, 342 km]; GRU São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport in São Paulo [BR, 470 km]; CGH Congonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre Airport in São Paulo [BR, 499 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include BEL Val de Cans/Júlio Cezar Ribeiro International Airport in Belém [BR]; BSB Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport in Brasília [BR]; CGH Congonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre Airport in São Paulo [BR]; CNF Tancredo Neves International Airport in Belo Horizonte [BR]; CWB Curitiba-Afonso Pena International Airport in Curitiba [BR]; FOR Pinto Martins International Airport in Fortaleza [BR]; GIG Rio Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport in Rio De Janeiro [BR]; GRU São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport in São Paulo [BR]; GYN Santa Genoveva International Airport in Goiânia [BR]; MAO Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus [BR].
Belo Horizonte renders Jun 2, 2026 · 07:45 GMT-3; GMT-3 at UTC-03:00; January UTC-03:00; July UTC-03:00; next holiday Corpus Christi on 2026-06-04.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Belo Horizonte.
Belo Horizonte is a manual-dossier city; rank #3 of 13 retained Brazil city pages. The route is /time/brazil/belo-horizonte/ and the city id is belo-horizonte-BR.
Belo Horizonte has 16 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Belo Horizonte is pinned at 19.92°S, 43.94°W; Rio de Janeiro (341 km); São Paulo (490 km).
America/Sao_Paulo resolves to stable UTC-03:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Brazil.
CNF Tancredo Neves International Airport (32 km) · Corpus Christi (Thursday, June 4, 2026) · 15 country airport references · 15 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Belo Horizonte uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Belo Horizonte: Belo Horizonte is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population of around 2.4 million, and the third largest metropolitan area, containing a population of 6 million. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropolis is anchor to the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area, ranked as the third most populous metropolitan area in Brazil and the 17th most populous in the Americas. Belo Horizonte is the capital of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil's second-most populous state. It is the first planned modern city in Brazil.
Brazil abolished daylight saving time in 2019 after decades of southern-state observance; São Paulo has stayed at UTC-3 year-round since.
Brazil abolished daylight saving time in 2019 after decades of southern-state observance; São Paulo has stayed at UTC-3 year-round since.
Brazil abolished daylight saving time in 2019. The local UTC offset (-03:00) is constant year-round.
Belo Horizonte is listed in the dataset snapshot as 3 hours behind UTC (offset -03:00). 4 hours behind London, 12 hours behind Tokyo.
Belo Horizonte sits at 19.92°S, in the southern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Dec 15 (13h 20m)
Shortest day
Jun 21 (10h 55m)
Year-round average
12h 6m
Annual swing
2h 25m
See the full daylight curve for Belo Horizonte at /sun/belo-horizonte/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Belo Horizonte local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Belo Horizonte |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 05:00 - 13:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 04:00 - 12:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 00:30 - 08:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 22:00 - 06:00 (next day) |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 22:00 - 06:00 (next day) |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 21:00 - 05:00 (next day) |
IANA time zones in country
4
Public holidays in 2026
15
Belo Horizonte is the capital of Minas Gerais, Brazil's second-most populous state, with about 2.7 million residents in the municipality and a metropolitan area of roughly 6 million. The city observes Brasília Time (BRT, UTC-3) and no longer uses daylight saving, abolished nationwide in 2019. Inaugurated in 1897, Belo Horizonte was the first planned modern city in Brazil, laid out on a grid inspired by Washington, D.C., to replace the colonial town of Ouro Preto as the state capital. It anchors a major mining and steel region, and its Pampulha modernist architectural complex, designed by Oscar Niemeyer in the 1940s, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Belo Horizonte's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 07:45:12 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Belo Horizonte (UTC-03:00, BRT).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:23 AM to 05:23 PM
Day length 11h 0m · Solar noon 11:53 AM
Next country holiday
Corpus Christi
Thursday, June 4, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Belo Horizonte local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
Code with Claude Tokyo 2026
keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Population
2.7M
Coordinates
-19.92, -43.94
Timezone
America/Sao_Paulo
Indexed airports
15
Capital
Brasília
Languages
Portuguese
Currency
BRL (R$)
Country area
8,515,767 km²
Belo Horizonte, Brazil (population rank #3 in this dataset). Time zone: America/Sao_Paulo (BRT, UTC-03:00); population ~2.7M.
Coordinates: 19.92°S, 43.94°W. Southern Hemisphere tropics, ~2211 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:23 AM and sets around 05:23 PM in Belo Horizonte — about 11h 0m of daylight. Brazil stays on standard time here, so UTC-03:00 is stable through the year.
Rio de Janeiro (341 km from Belo Horizonte) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 15 curated airport pages indexed for Brazil.
Next national holiday: Corpus Christi, 2026-06-04.
Belo Horizonte is indexed as a America city in the BR country record, using America/Sao_Paulo as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/brazil/belo-horizonte/.
Location context: 19.92°S, 43.94°W; population 2,721,564; nearest indexed city Rio de Janeiro is about 341 km away; closest reference hub is São Paulo, about 490 km away.
Country planning context: capital Brasília; subregion South America; languages Portuguese; currency BRL (R$); area 8,515,767 km²; 15 curated airport references; next holiday Corpus Christi on 2026-06-04.
Brazil abolished daylight saving time in 2019 after decades of southern-state observance; São Paulo has stayed at UTC-3 year-round since.
Brazil abolished daylight saving time in 2019. The local UTC offset (-03:00) is constant year-round.
Belo Horizonte is listed in the dataset snapshot as 3 hours behind UTC (offset -03:00). 4 hours behind London, 12 hours behind Tokyo.
Belo Horizonte sits at 19.92°S, in the southern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Major metropolitan area with around 2.7 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Belo Horizonte: São Paulo (same time), Sydney (+13h), Tokyo (+12h), Johannesburg (+5h), Mumbai (+8.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
brazil
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
BRT
IANA Zone
America/Sao Paulo
UTC Offset
UTC-03:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC-03:00
Argentina, Canada, Bermuda, Greenland, Brazil, Antarctica, Chile, Falkland Islands
Other cities in this timezone
London
+4h
New York
-1h
Los Angeles
-4h
Dubai
+7h
Singapore
+11h
Tokyo
+12h
Sydney
+13h
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 Belo Horizonte.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Belo Horizonte: closest hubs São Paulo (~490 km), New York (~7,424 km), London (~9,012 km); farthest indexed hub Tokyo (~18,228 km).
Belo Horizonte sits inside Brazil — the South America subregion, capital Brasília, languages Portuguese, currency BRL (R$).
Closest indexed cities to Belo Horizonte: Rio de Janeiro (341 km), São Paulo (490 km), Salvador (966 km), Campo Grande (1119 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Belo Horizonte: Corpus Christi, Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932, Independence Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Brazil.
Closest curated airport references from Belo Horizonte: CNF Belo Horizonte (32 km), GIG Rio De Janeiro (329 km), SDU Rio de Janeiro (342 km).
Brazil is not one simple clock story, and pages should explain the spread between Brasília time and western states.
Tancredo Neves International AirportCNF
Belo Horizonte · 32 km from Belo Horizonte
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
Rio Galeão – Tom Jobim International AirportGIG
Rio De Janeiro · 329 km from Belo Horizonte
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 10m
Santos Dumont AirportSDU
Rio de Janeiro · 342 km from Belo Horizonte
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 11m
São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International AirportGRU
São Paulo · 470 km from Belo Horizonte
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 21m
Congonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre AirportCGH
São Paulo · 499 km from Belo Horizonte
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 23m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
0 of 7 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:45 AM | +4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:45 AM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:45 AM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:45 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:45 PM | +11h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:45 PM | +12h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:45 PM | +13h | Check the overlap widget below |
Tancredo Neves International AirportCNF
Belo Horizonte · 32 km away
Rio Galeão – Tom Jobim International AirportGIG
Rio De Janeiro · 329 km away
Santos Dumont AirportSDU
Rio de Janeiro · 342 km away
São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International AirportGRU
São Paulo · 470 km away
Congonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre AirportCGH
São Paulo · 499 km away
Belo Horizonte is in the America/Sao_Paulo timezone (BRT), with a UTC offset of -03:00.
Belo Horizonte does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC-03:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Belo Horizonte is UTC-03:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Belo Horizonte, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 07:45 GMT-3. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Belo Horizonte sits at 19.92°S, 43.94°W in Brazil, with about 2.7M residents (rank #3 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Belo Horizonte is São Paulo, about 490 km away as the crow flies.
Rio de Janeiro is the closest indexed city, roughly 341 km from Belo Horizonte.
Tancredo Neves International Airport (CNF) is the closest curated airport reference, about 32 km from Belo Horizonte.
Corpus Christi is the next upcoming holiday in Brazil, on Thursday, June 4, 2026.
Belo Horizonte uses Brazilian real (BRL, symbol R$) as the local currency of Brazil.
The longest day of 2026 in Belo Horizonte falls on Dec 15 with about 13h 20m of daylight. The shortest is Jun 21 with 10h 55m; the year-round average is 12h 6m.
Brazil spans 4 IANA time zones in total; Belo Horizonte's canonical zone for this page is America/Sao_Paulo.
In Belo Horizonte local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 10:00-18:00; London 05:00-13:00; Frankfurt 04:00-12:00; Dubai 02:00-10:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.