What time is it in East Palo Alto, California?

East Palo Alto is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.

East Palo Alto sits at 37.47°N, 122.13°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in East Palo Alto.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over East Palo Alto it is highest at 1:00 pm today — 60 minutes after clock noon.

At 122.1°W, East Palo Alto sits well toward the western edge of its zone, which is why the sun stays up later here than the clock suggests. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.

Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in East Palo Alto, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 11 minutes, from 14 hours 45 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 34 minutes in December.

At 37.5°N that puts East Palo Alto between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.