When Does the Film "Captain America: Brave New World" (2025) Take Place?

"Captain America: Brave New World" is a superhero film written by Rob Edwards with Malcolm Spellman, Dalan Musson, Julius Onah, Peter Glanz, and Matthew Orton [adapting "Hulk" #23 v2 (2010) by Jeph Loeb] that released February 14th, 2025. So when is "Captain America: Brave New World" set? 

It takes place on the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline in the year: 

2027 AD 

We know this because a TV news report specifically describes the time since the public outing of Isaiah Bradley as "2 years". This happens during the TV show "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" (2021), which takes place in late 2023 AD. 

2023 + 2 = 2025. 

HOWEVER, Samuel Sterns specifically says he’s been imprisoned for "16 years" and he was seen free but in direct danger of being captured at the end of "The Incredible Hulk" (2008), which takes place entirely within 2011 AD. 

2011 + 16 = 2027. 

Additionally, there's a prologue depicting a United States of America presidential acceptance speech (which usually occurs every four years in November) that ends with a relative time setting title card that reads "FIVE MONTHS LATER" and therefore, as the main action takes place in 2027 AD, we can assume this prologue takes place in November of 2026 AD. The candidate assuming office is not President Ritson, the current president during the MCU TV show "Secret Invasion" (2023), which takes place in 2025 AD. Therefore the prologue cannot be November of 2024 AD despite that being the timing of the USA presidential election for that cycle in the real world. It is safe to assume events [likely those depicted in "The Avengers: Infinity War" (2018) and "The Avengers Endgame" (2019)] have caused this cycle to shift in the fictional world (diegesis) of the MCU. 

4.2027 - 5 months = 11.2026.