Current time in Recife, Brazil
The current local time in Recife is shown below. Recife observes BRT.
What's the daylight saving status?
Recife 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/Recife
- Standard abbreviation
- BRT
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Recife?
Recife keeps UTC-3 on the north-eastern coast, and its position near the eastern extremity of the Americas means the sun rises and sets earlier here, by the clock, than almost anywhere else on the continent. Like the rest of the north-east, the region never took part in Brazil's daylight-saving changes, which applied only to the south, before the practice was abolished nationwide in 2019. The near-equatorial latitude keeps the length of the day steady through the year.
What are the working hours in Recife?
A notable technology and innovation hub, grown up around the Porto Digital district in the restored old port, sits alongside the traditional economy of sugar, the port, and tourism, giving the city one of the more developed software sectors in the region. The working day runs the Brazilian pattern of around 08:00 to 18:00 with a long lunch. Carnival here is famous for its frevo and maracatu rhythms and its daytime street parades, and the June festivals are a major fixture across the north-east.
Where is Recife?
Recife sits on the north-eastern tip of Brazil where several rivers meet the Atlantic, the capital of the state of Pernambuco and one of the major cities of the Brazilian north-east, with a metropolitan population of around 4 million. Threaded with rivers, islands, and bridges, it has long been called the Brazilian Venice. It lies close to the easternmost point of the Americas, the nearest part of the continent to Africa and Europe across the ocean.