Local time · Carlsbad
What time is it in Carlsbad, California?
1:50:42AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 113,575
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Carlsbad
Carlsbad is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Carlsbad sits at 33.13°N, 117.28°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Carlsbad.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Carlsbad it is highest at 11:33 am today — 27 minutes before clock noon.
At 117.3°W, Carlsbad sits 11 minutes of solar time east of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 11 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Carlsbad today
- Sunrise
- 6:18 am
- Sunset
- 4:48 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 30 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 21 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 30 minutes in Carlsbad, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 23 minutes, from 14 hours 21 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 58 minutes in December.
At 33.1°N that puts Carlsbad between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.