Current time in Yuma, United States
The current local time in Yuma is shown below. Yuma observes MST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Yuma 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 Yuma?
Yuma uses Mountain Standard Time at UTC-7 year-round, alongside the rest of Arizona's non-Navajo majority. Arizona has not observed daylight saving since 1968. In summer, Yuma's wall time aligns with Pacific Daylight Time used immediately west across the Colorado River in California, and with the Mexican state of Sonora immediately south (which also dropped DST). In winter, Yuma's wall time aligns with Mountain Standard Time used by Colorado and inland Arizona. The seasonal shift in time-zone alignment without any local clock change is a distinctive border-region quirk.
What are the working hours in Yuma?
Winter vegetable agriculture (sometimes called the 'Winter Lettuce Capital of the World'), the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma military presence, and a substantial winter-resident population anchor the working economy. Office hours run 07:00 to 16:00 with summer-heat scheduling adjustments severe: outdoor field work typically starts before sunrise and ends by midday between May and September. The substantial influx of winter residents (Yuma's population grows substantially from November through March) reshapes service-sector scheduling significantly. The Yuma Lettuce Days festival in mid-March is the largest distinctive local civic event.
Where is Yuma?
Yuma sits in the south-western corner of Arizona on the Colorado River, immediately across from California and around 40 kilometres north of the US-Mexico border at San Luis RÃo Colorado. The city proper holds around 100,000 residents and Yuma County roughly 210,000. The city sits at low elevation (around 43 metres), among the hottest and driest in the United States with average summer high temperatures regularly exceeding 42 degrees Celsius. Yuma's substantial winter-vegetable production supplies a significant share of US lettuce, broccoli, and cauliflower from November through March.