Local time · Citrus Heights
What time is it in Citrus Heights, California?
1:51:15AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 86,909
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Citrus Heights
Citrus Heights is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Citrus Heights sits at 38.69°N, 121.29°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Citrus Heights.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Citrus Heights it is highest at 11:49 am today — 11 minutes before clock noon.
At 121.3°W, Citrus Heights 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 Citrus Heights today
- Sunrise
- 6:45 am
- Sunset
- 4:53 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 8 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 53 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 8 minutes in Citrus Heights, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 25 minutes, from 14 hours 53 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 27 minutes in December.
At 38.7°N that puts Citrus Heights between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.