Local time · Desert Hot Springs
What time is it in Desert Hot Springs, California?
1:51:41AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 33,917
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Desert Hot Springs
Desert Hot Springs is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Desert Hot Springs sits at 33.96°N, 116.54°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Desert Hot Springs.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Desert Hot Springs it is highest at 11:30 am today — 30 minutes before clock noon.
At 116.5°W, Desert Hot Springs sits 14 minutes of solar time east of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 14 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Desert Hot Springs today
- Sunrise
- 6:17 am
- Sunset
- 4:43 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 27 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 25 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 27 minutes in Desert Hot Springs, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 32 minutes, from 14 hours 25 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 53 minutes in December.
At 34.0°N that puts Desert Hot Springs between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.