Local time · Bakersfield
What time is it in Bakersfield, California?
1:50:19AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 417,468
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Bakersfield
Bakersfield is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Bakersfield sits at 35.35°N, 119.04°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Bakersfield.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Bakersfield it is highest at 11:40 am today — 20 minutes before clock noon.
At 119.0°W, Bakersfield sits almost exactly on Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in Bakersfield today
- Sunrise
- 6:29 am
- Sunset
- 4:51 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 21 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 33 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 21 minutes in Bakersfield, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 47 minutes, from 14 hours 33 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 46 minutes in December.
At 35.4°N that puts Bakersfield between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.