Crested Butte in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.8697, -106.9880
- Elevation
- 2720 m above sea level
- Population
- 1 579
- Region
- Colorado
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 2581 km away
What time is it in Crested Butte, Colorado, United States
This page tells you the time right now in Crested Butte, Colorado, United States, in the America/Denver zone (−7).
Crested Butte, United States
Saturday, 7 November 2026
UTC−7 · America/Denver
Local time in Crested Butte
UTC−7 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Crested Butte.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:43 AM Solar noon 11:53 AM Sunset 5:03 PM Daylight 10 h 20 min Night 13 h 40 min Civil twilight 6:15 AM – 5:31 PM
Weather in Crested Butte right now
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Crested Butte and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 81224
- 81225
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 Colorado
- Denver 729 019
- Colorado Springs 456 568
- Aurora 359 407
- Fort Collins 170 924
- Lakewood 152 597
- Thornton 133 451
Same time zone — America/Denver
Nearby places
- Mount Crested Butte — 4.6 km
- Ruby — 9.4 km
- Irwin — 9.4 km
- Gothic — 10.0 km
- Elkton — 11.1 km
- Pittsburg — 11.2 km
Time and daylight in Crested Butte
Delivery zones in Crested Butte are marked by 2 postal codes.
Crested Butte runs its day on America/Denver, which is offset UTC−7. Seasonal time adjustment: No.
Today in Crested Butte, daylight opens at 6:43 AM and closes at 5:03 PM. That span measures 10 h 20 min.
Crested Butte shares one clock with the nearby places Mount Crested Butte and Ruby.
Questions and answers
- Which local time zone does Crested Butte follow?
- Crested Butte follows America/Denver, with an offset of −7.
- Does Crested Butte keep the same offset year round, or does it use daylight saving?
- Daylight saving time in Crested Butte: No.
- At what time is the sun rising in Crested Butte?
- The sun is rising at 6:43 AM.