Tarauacá, Brazil · UTC-5
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Tarauacá is in the Acre Time zone (ACT/UTC-5). Brazil’s Acre state keeps a fixed offset with no daylight saving time.
Tarauacá sits deep in the Brazilian state of Acre, pressed against the Peruvian border in a bend of the river that shares its name. The town exists at the edge of one of the world’s most remote inhabited regions, where connectivity to the rest of Brazil is measured in boat hours as much as road hours.
The clock here runs on Acre Time, UTC-5, which puts Tarauacá five hours behind London and two hours behind Brasília. Brazil spans four official timezones, and Acre is the westernmost. When it’s noon in Brasília, it’s 10am here. The gap matters: federal broadcast schedules, banking hours, and bureaucratic deadlines all run on Brasília time, meaning residents must constantly translate.
Amazon rhythms over the clock
The Amazon’s rhythms dominate the actual experience of time. River levels rise and fall with the wet season (November through March), and whole communities orient their calendars around flood and drought rather than daylight saving. Acre dropped out of DST in 2013, and the decision has mostly held since.
9am in Tarauacá is 2pm in London. A shared timezone neighbor is Rio Branco, the Acre state capital upstream.
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Questions about time in Tarauacá
- What timezone is Tarauacá in?
- Tarauacá uses the IANA timezone
America/Rio_Branco. The UTC offset is always UTC-5 — this timezone does not observe daylight saving time. - Does Tarauacá observe daylight saving time?
- No. Tarauacá does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC-5 all year round.
- What is the current UTC offset for Tarauacá?
- Tarauacá is currently at UTC-5.
- What is the time difference between Tarauacá and New York?
- Tarauacá is currently 1 hour behind New York.
- What is the time difference between Tarauacá and London?
- Tarauacá is currently 6 hours behind London.
- What is the time difference between Tarauacá and Los Angeles?
- Tarauacá is currently 2 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Tarauacá and Tokyo?
- Tarauacá is currently 14 hours behind Tokyo.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Tarauacá?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Tarauacá is
America/Rio_Branco. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'America/Rio_Branco' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('America/Rio_Branco')`), or any IANA-compatible library.