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The daylight saving time (DST), or ‘Summer Time’ as it is officially referred to, starts at 00:00 on the first Sunday of November (4th November 2018), when the clocks will be adjusted one hour forward in parts of Brazil.
DST will end at 00:00 of 17 February 2019, when the clocks will be adjusted one hour backwards in the Southern Region (the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná), the Southeast Region (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Espirito Santo and Minas Gerais), and the Central-West Region (Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, and the Federal District). The North and Northeast Regions do not observe the DST.
Daylight saving time (Summer Time) zones in Brazil
Time in Brazil is calculated using standard time and the country is divided into four standard time zones, as illustrated in the map above. During the DST, the local times in the four zones are UTC – 05:00 (red), UTC – 04:00 (brown), UTC – 03:00 (green) and UTC – 02:00 (blue).
