North American time zones:
MST – Mountain Standard Time
Current time in Edmonton
Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 7:49:51 PM MST
Edmonton will stay on MST until Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 2:00 AMwhen clocks are moved to Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 03:00:00MDT
Find local time and time zone for a location
We recommend looking up by location name, not time zone name.Time zone offset: UTC - 7 hours
MST is 7 hours behind of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)Note that most places observe daylight saving time/summer time during summer, and are therefore using MDT instead in the summer. See below for details.
Time zone abbreviations: MST, HNR
Full name is Mountain Standard TimeHNR – Heure Normale des Rocheuses (French)
Email time zone indicator: -0700
An email sent from someone in the MST time zone will have the time zone listed as "-0700" in the headers of the email. (However, "-0700" does not have to be in MST, as other time zones could have the same UTC offset).
For actual dates DST might be observed, look at the examples belowWhere and when is MST observed?
US states using MST in the winter and MDT during the summer
- Arizona - Navajo Nation only
- Colorado
- Idaho - most of the state except western counties Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, Shoshone and north part of Idaho
- Kansas - some western counties only Greeley, Hamilton, Sherman and Wallace
- Montana
- Nebraska - western counties Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Dundy, Garden, Grant, Hooker, Keith, Kimball, Morrill, Perkins, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan, and Sioux and the western part of Cherry
- New Mexico
- North Dakota - South-Western parts counties of Adams, Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Grant, Hettinger, Mercer, Slope and Stark, and southern parts of Dunn and McKenzie, most of Morton and Sioux counties
- Oregon - parts of Malheur county only
- South Dakota - western counties Bennett, Butte, Corson, Custer, Dewey, Fall River, Haakon, Harding, Jackson, Lawrence, Meade, Mellette, Pennington, Perkins, Shannon, Todd, and Ziebach, and the western parts of Jones and Stanley
- Texas - a few counties in west El Paso and Hudspeth and part of Culberson
- Utah
- Wyoming
Canadian provinces using MST in the winter and MDT during the summer
- Alberta
- British Columbia - a few eastern communities Cranbrook, Golden, Invermere
- Northwest Territories
- Saskatchewan - only Lloydminster
Mexican states using MST in the winter and MDT during the summer
- Baja California Sur
- Chihuahua
- Nayarit
- Sinaloa
MST is used all year
- Arizona except Navajo Nation
- Sonora
Example locations in MST
- Phoenix - This time zone offset is used all year in this location
- Edmonton - This time zone offset is used during winter in this location
Other time zones in North America
Go directly through the links below, or see the North America time zone list- ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time
- AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time
- AKST - Alaska Standard Time
- AST - Atlantic Standard Time
- CDT - Central Daylight Time
- CST - Central Standard Time
- EDT - Eastern Daylight Time
- EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
- EGT - East Greenland Time
- EST - Eastern Standard Time
- HADT - Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time
- HAST - Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time
- MDT - Mountain Daylight Time
- NDT - Newfoundland Daylight Time
- NST - Newfoundland Standard Time
- PDT - Pacific Daylight Time
- PMDT - Pierre & Miquelon Daylight Time
- PMST - Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time
- PST - Pacific Standard Time
- WGST - Western Greenland Summer Time
- WGT - West Greenland Time
Time zones in other regions
- Africa
- Antarctica
- Asia
- Atlantic
- Australia
- Caribbean
- Central America
- Europe
- Indian Ocean
- Military
- Pacific
- South America
Related links
- Time zone abbreviations world-wide
- The World Clock - Time Zones - current time around the world
- The World Clock - Time Zone Converter - Convert between time zones
