Local time · Colton
What time is it in Colton, California?
1:49:59AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 53,528
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Colton
Colton is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Colton sits at 34.05°N, 117.33°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Colton.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Colton it is highest at 11:33 am today — 27 minutes before clock noon.
At 117.3°W, Colton 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 Colton today
- Sunrise
- 6:20 am
- Sunset
- 4:46 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 26 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 26 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 26 minutes in Colton, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 33 minutes, from 14 hours 26 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 53 minutes in December.
At 34.1°N that puts Colton between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.