Local time · El Cajon
What time is it in El Cajon, California?
1:50:51AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 103,291
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in El Cajon
El Cajon is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 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 Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over El Cajon it is highest at 11:32 am today — 28 minutes before clock noon.
At 117.0°W, El Cajon sits 12 minutes of solar time east of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 12 minutes before noon.
Daylight in El Cajon today
- Sunrise
- 6:16 am
- Sunset
- 4:47 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 31 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 19 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 31 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.