What time is it in Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil
Aracaju keeps UTC−3 all year, the present offset of Brasília, stored as America/Maceio. This page is Sergipe civil time, with sunrise, sunset, and coastal weather.
Aracaju, Brazil
Sunday, 6 September 2026
UTC−3 · America/Maceio
Local time in Aracaju
UTC−3 · no daylight saving time
The sun today
Sunrise 5:30 AM Solar noon 11:28 AM Sunset 5:26 PM Daylight 11 h 57 min Night 12 h 03 min Civil twilight 5:09 AM – 5:48 PM
Weather in Aracaju right now
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Weather data by Open-Meteo, updated every 30 minutes.
Aracaju and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 49000-000
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 Sergipe
- Nossa Senhora Do Socorro 204 081
- Itabaiana 103 440
- Lagarto 101 579
- Sao Cristovao 101 213
- Estancia 65 078
- Tobias Barreto 50 905
Other places named Aracaju
- Aracaju Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Same time zone — America/Maceio
- Maceio Brazil
Nearby places
- Invasão das Mangueiras — 2.0 km
- Invasão do Riacho Cabral — 2.4 km
- Invasão José Rollemberg Leite — 2.7 km
- Veneza II — 3.0 km
- Largo da Aparecida — 3.0 km
- Invasão da Rua Oliveira Barros — 3.0 km
What time is it in Aracaju
Aracaju is the capital of Sergipe, on Brazil’s Atlantic northeast, where the Sergipe River meets the ocean. Official clocks follow the offset used in Recife, Maceió, and Brasília: three hours behind Coordinated Universal Time. Software usually stores the local file as America/Maceio. That identifier covers Alagoas and Sergipe. It is not a stand-in for every Brazilian city, and it is not a hint to use Brasília’s sunrise.
Brazil is not one zone. Amazonas sits behind this hour. Fernando de Noronha sits ahead. Writing “Brazil time” on an invite is how a meeting lands in the wrong state. Write Aracaju and UTC−3, or tag America/Maceio. The America/Maceio file exists because the northeast kept its own history relative to the southeast’s old summer time. Under present rules both sides stay on UTC−3. Use the named file anyway, so a forgotten toggle cannot resurrect a jump this coast does not make.
Brazil does not currently spring forward. A 09:00 start in Aracaju stays 09:00 against UTC in every month. If a call with New York or Lisbon seems to have slid, look at their Sunday first. Sergipe did not move.
A small state’s capital, a northeastern file
Sergipe is a compact state. The capital still does not keep a municipal extra. School bells, ferry notices, and state offices print UTC−3. A drive up the coast toward the Alagoas line, or inland toward the dry sertão, does not change the watch. It changes the wind off the Atlantic and how hard the midday sun feels on the sand. Finish a call in Maceió and open the next one here on the same minute. The horizon will not be the same minute.
Set phones to America/Maceio or to UTC−3 with summer time off. Do not pick Manaus or “Amazon Time.” That is a different Brazilian hour. Do not pick Fernando de Noronha. That island sits ahead of this coast.
Use Aracaju itself for sunrise, sunset, and weather, not a Recife paste and not a Brasília plateau dawn. Selecting São Paulo in software can currently agree on the offset and still be the wrong file. Prefer America/Maceio for a Sergipe event. If a laptop offers Bahia or Recife after a hop along the coast, confirm the offset against this page before you trust the label. Neighbours on this stretch of the northeast currently share UTC−3. They do not share this river mouth’s rain cell. The Atlantic can delay a boat. It cannot delay UTC−3. Tide is not a timezone.
Near-tropical light on a fixed minus-three
Aracaju sits well south of the equator, but far closer to it than the cities of southern Brazil. Day length still changes through the year — longer toward December, shorter toward June — yet the swing is milder than in Santa Catarina or in São Paulo’s interior. That is latitude, not legislation. Copying a Porto Alegre June dawn onto this beach is how people pack for the wrong light. The figures on this page are for this coastal pin on the selected day.
Calculated sunrise is the upper edge on an ideal horizon. From the waterfront, sea haze and a bank of trade-wind cloud can hide the disk. Keep the table for the geometric instant. Keep the weather reading for whether the sky is clear enough to see it. Solar noon here arrives before 12:00 on the wall, because the city sits east of the 45°W meridian that UTC−3 is built on. A lunch at noon is still a civil habit. The highest sun is an earlier minute. Neither fact is a fault in the clock.
This coast has a tropical year: a wetter stretch and a drier stretch, heat that can make a midday outdoor slot unkind, and rain that can stall a street without touching the offset. The weather block is the present condition over Aracaju. It is not a slogan for the Northeast and not a forecast for the evening. Prefer “09:00 Aracaju (UTC−3)” on mixed invites. BRT is understood inside Brazil and still collides with other abbreviations abroad. Partners who jump in March or October will see the gap change even though Sergipe did nothing. Store the event as America/Maceio so only their display moves.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is Aracaju in?
- UTC−3, the same present official offset as Brasília. Computers often call the file America/Maceio, which covers Sergipe.
- Does Aracaju change clocks for summer?
- No. Present civil time stays three hours behind UTC in every month.
- Is Aracaju on the same hour as São Paulo city?
- Under present rules, yes: both print UTC−3. Use America/Maceio for this coast, and use this page’s sun table, not a southeast paste.