Helena in numbers
- Coordinates
- 45.1702, -116.6520
- Elevation
- 2018 m above sea level
- Region
- Idaho
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 3311 km away
- Same name
- 26 more places in the world share this name
Check the current local time in Helena, Idaho, United States, which sits in the America/Boise time zone (−7).
Helena, United States
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
UTC−7 · America/Boise
Local time in Helena
UTC−7 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Helena.
Sunrise 7:29 AM Solar noon 12:31 PM Sunset 5:33 PM Daylight 10 h 04 min Night 13 h 56 min Civil twilight 6:58 AM – 6:04 PM
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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.
The time zone used in Helena is America/Boise, set at UTC−7. Whether the clocks shift for daylight saving: No.
At Helena the sun clears the horizon at 7:29 AM and sinks again at 5:33 PM. The gap between them is 10 h 04 min.
Landore and Cuprum, both nearby, hold the same time as Helena.
Helena is split into 12 postal code areas.