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So in 1968 Arizona decided to stay on Mountain Time year-round.īut the Navajo Nation decided to follow daylight savings time, which gives the time difference. It was believed that most people would rather have lighter mornings before it got too hot to get things done. Why doesn’t Arizona observe daylight savings?ĭue to the warm climate in Arizona, it was felt that observing daylight saving was completely unnecessary. I mentioned it to the waitress who informed me about the Navajo Nation being on daylight saving. When we were in the Monument Valley area we stopped for something to eat and I noticed that the clock in the place we stopped was an hour different from my watch. We started in Phoenix and covered Monument Valley, the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and Las Vegas.

I first experienced this time difference when I took my son on a road trip in Arizona and Nevada for his 16th birthday. This is because the 264 passes through parts of all the 5 areas shown above. This means that if you were to drive east from the Grand Canyon National Park into New Mexico along Route 264 you would have to adjust your watch 7 times before leaving Arizona.

A small area of Navajo land inside the Hopi Reservation at Jeddito – Mountain Time minus 1 hour.

Hopi Reservation (Moenkopi small area) – Mountain Time.Hopi Reservation (largest area) – Mountain Time.Navajo Nation – Mountain Time minus 1 hour.The result is that there are five separate areas of Arizona that have different times during the summer (March to November): To make things even more confusing, the Hopi Reservation, which falls within the Navajo Nation, does not observe daylight savings either.

So their territory is on a different time than the rest of Arizona. This happens because the Navajo Nation does observe daylight saving. How can that be if they are in the same time zone? Yet, for around 8 months of the year, some parts of Arizona are one hour ahead of the rest. Arizona stays on Mountain Standard Time all year round. Arizona state does not observe DST (daylight savings time) as all other US states do (except Hawaii). The Arizona time zone confusion is not due to it falling within two time zones, as some other states do, but due to daylight savings. The timezone in Arizona is actually Mountain Standard Time for the entire state.