What time is it in El Cajon, California?
5:55:27 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Pacific Daylight Time, UTC−7:00.
- Time zone
- Pacific Daylight Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−7:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Population
- 103,291
Daylight saving in El Cajon
El Cajon is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
El Cajon sits at 32.80°N, 116.96°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in El Cajon.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over El Cajon it is highest at 12:39 pm today — 39 minutes after clock noon.
At 117.0°W, El Cajon sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in El Cajon today
- Sunrise
- 6:38 am
- Sunset
- 6:40 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 19 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in El Cajon, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 20 minutes, from 14 hours 19 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 59 minutes in December.
At 32.8°N that puts El Cajon between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.