Rite Time is the eleventh and final studio album by the German krautrock band Can, released in late Summer 1989 by Mercury Records.

The recording took place in the Outer Space studio set up by the band's guitarist Michael Karoli in his house built near Nice, Southern France.

The project was sponsored by production company Fink & Star, founded by George Reinhart—art patron and a nephew of the wealthy Swiss art collector Oskar Reinhart.

"Fink & Star" previously financed the work of the Spoon Records and Irmin's LPs Musk at Dusk and Impossible Holidays.

The next year, before the album was delivered for release, Holger performed last edits at the "Lab for Degenerated Music", the room at his Cologne apartment.

[8] AllMusic reviewer Stewart Mason enjoyed the band's desire to make an album independent from the sound they created over the past two decades.

[7] Pete Clark, writing for Hi-Fi News & Record Review, thought the album was "eminently listenable" with a mix of "straight songs illuminated by leaks or flashes of odd sound".

[8] The Rolling Stone Album Guide, publisher in 2004, called Rite Time skippable, capturing the spirit of Can and "not embarrassing, but the old magic is absent".

Young highlighted the drums sounding "beefy and widely separated", the space between instruments clearly defined with digital effects, and the "corona of brightness" flooding tying the entirety of the record together.