Current time in Mesa, United States
The current local time in Mesa is shown below. Mesa observes MST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Mesa does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- America/Phoenix
- Standard abbreviation
- MST
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Mesa?
Mesa observes Arizona's Mountain Standard Time at UTC-7 year-round with no daylight saving, the same as the rest of the state outside the Navajo Nation. The summer pattern places Mesa on the same wall-clock time as Los Angeles despite their different nominal time zones. The eastern boundary of the Phoenix metro extends to the Tonto National Forest, beyond which the Navajo reservation observes DST, producing a quirky seasonal one-hour change for residents driving north-east. The 1968 Arizona DST exemption continues to be widely supported locally.
What are the working hours in Mesa?
Mesa's working economy combines aerospace and defence manufacturing (Boeing's largest helicopter facility is here, producing the Apache attack helicopter), the substantial healthcare sector around Banner Health's hospitals, and a major educational sector anchored by Arizona State University's Polytechnic campus. Office hours run 08:00 to 17:00 in conventional sectors. The annual Cubs Spring Training games at Sloan Park in February and March produce one of the largest seasonal economic events of the Cactus League. Summer heat compresses much economic activity into the cooler hours.
Where is Mesa?
Mesa sits in the eastern Phoenix metropolitan area in central Arizona, immediately east of Tempe and forming part of the continuous east-Valley urban region. The municipal population is around 510,000, the third-largest in Arizona after Phoenix and Tucson. The geography is flat Sonoran Desert basin at around 370 metres elevation, with the city extending roughly 24 kilometres east-to-west between the Phoenix mountains and the Superstition foothills. The Salt River forms the northern boundary, with the older urban core to the north and modern subdivisions extending south toward the Gila River.