Rio Grande in numbers
- Coordinates
- -32.0781, -52.3501
- Population
- 198 935
- Region
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Country
- Brazil, South America
- Capital
- Brasília — 1866 km away
- Same name
- 138 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
This page shows the current local time in Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in the America/Sao_Paulo time zone (−3).
Rio Grande, Brazil
Thursday, 5 November 2026
UTC−3 · America/Sao_Paulo
Local time in Rio Grande
UTC−3 · no daylight saving time
Rio Grande keeps America/Sao_Paulo clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:29 AM Solar noon 12:14 PM Sunset 6:59 PM Daylight 13 h 29 min Night 10 h 31 min Civil twilight 5:03 AM – 7:25 PM
Weather in Rio Grande right now
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Rio Grande and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 96200-000
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Rio Grande do Sul
- Porto Alegre 1 488 252
- Caxias Do Sul 479 599
- Pelotas 336 150
- Canoas 328 291
- Santa Maria 271 735
- Gravatai 265 074
Other places named Rio Grande
- Rio Grande Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
- Rio Grande Zacatecas, Mexico
- Rio Grande Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
- Rio Grande Río Grande, Puerto Rico
- Río Grande Oaxaca, Mexico
Same time zone — America/Sao_Paulo
- Sao Paulo Brazil
- Rio de Janeiro Brazil
- Belo Horizonte Brazil
- Brasilia Brazil
- Curitiba Brazil
- Goiania Brazil
Nearby places
- Quinta — 8.5 km
- Domingos Petrolini — 10.0 km
- Arraial — 10.4 km
- Ilha do Leonídio — 13.2 km
- Medique — 14.2 km
- Vila Joaquim Oliveira — 15.5 km
Rio Grande: clock, sun and surroundings
1 codes make up the postal map of Rio Grande.
The clock standard in Rio Grande is America/Sao_Paulo, offset by UTC−3. Daylight saving time in use: No.
The sun rises at 5:29 AM, sets at 6:59 PM, and stays over Rio Grande for 13 h 29 min. That is today's daylight.
Close to Rio Grande, the towns of Quinta and Domingos Petrolini show the same time.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone is local to Rio Grande?
- The time zone local to Rio Grande is America/Sao_Paulo, with an offset of −3.
- Do the clocks in Rio Grande go back at any point?
- No.
- What time does the day end in Rio Grande?
- The sun sets at 6:59 PM.