Local time · Costa Mesa
What time is it in Costa Mesa, California?
1:50:44AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 109,131
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Costa Mesa
Costa Mesa is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Costa Mesa sits at 33.67°N, 117.91°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Costa Mesa.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Costa Mesa it is highest at 11:35 am today — 25 minutes before clock noon.
At 117.9°W, Costa Mesa sits 8 minutes of solar time east of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 8 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Costa Mesa today
- Sunrise
- 6:21 am
- Sunset
- 4:49 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 28 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 23 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 28 minutes in Costa Mesa, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 29 minutes, from 14 hours 23 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 55 minutes in December.
At 33.7°N that puts Costa Mesa between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.