Mountain Time (MT) or the Mountain Time Zone. This can add a bit of confusion as the term Mountain Time does not differentiate between standard time and Daylight Saving Time, so Mountain Time switches between MST and MDT in areas that use DST during part of the year.

Most North American time zones also have generic terms, including Pacific Time (PT), Central Time (CT), Eastern Time (ET), and Atlantic Time (AT).

Converting Mountain Time to Other US Time Zones

  • Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) is 2 hours behind Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
    To convert MDT to EDT, you have to add two hours.
  • Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) is 1 hour behind Central Daylight Time (CDT).
    To convert MDT to CDT, you have to add one hour.
  • Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) is 1 hour ahead of Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).
    To convert MDT to PDT, you have to subtract one hour.

Time Zone Converter: UTC to MDT

Where and When is MDT Observed?

North America

US states using MDT in the summer and MST in the winter:

  • Arizona - Navajo Nation only
  • Colorado
  • Idaho - most of the state except western counties Show

    Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, Shoshone and north part of Idaho

  • Kansas - some western counties only Show

    Greeley, Hamilton, Sherman and Wallace

  • Montana
  • Nebraska - western counties Show

    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 Show

    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 Show

    rest of Oregon is PST/PDT

  • South Dakota - western counties Show

    Bennett, Butte, Corson, Custer, Dewey, Fall River, Haakon, Harding, Jackson, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington, Perkins, Shannon, and Ziebach, and the western parts of Stanley

  • Texas - a few counties in west Show

    El Paso and Hudspeth and part of Culberson

  • Utah
  • Wyoming

Canadian provinces/territories using MDT in the summer and MST in the winter:

  • Alberta
  • British Columbia - a few eastern communities Show

    Cranbrook, Golden, Invermere

  • Northwest Territories
  • Nunavut - Kugluktuk, Cambridge Bay only (Other parts use EST/EDT or EST only)
  • Saskatchewan - only Lloydminster

Mexican states using MDT in the summer and MST in the winter:

  • Baja California Sur
  • Chihuahua
  • Nayarit
  • Sinaloa

Other Time Zones in UTC -6

Some time zones exist that have the same offset as MDT, but can be found under a different name:

  • CST – Central Standard Time
  • EAST – Easter Island Standard Time
  • GALT – Galapagos Time
  • S – Sierra Time Zone
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MDT time now

3:40:08 am

Monday, September 1, 2025

  • MDT will be observed in Edmonton until Nov 2, 2025 at 2:00 am
  • UTC Offset: UTC -6
  • 2 hours behind Toronto

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Other names

HAR – Heure Avancée des Rocheuses (French)

Example cities

Canada – Edmonton (Summer)

Related time zones

MST – Mountain Standard Time (Standard Time)


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