What time is it in El Centro, California?
5:04:28 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
- 44,230
Daylight saving in El Centro
El Centro 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 Centro sits at 32.79°N, 115.56°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in El Centro.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over El Centro it is highest at 12:33 pm today — 33 minutes after clock noon.
At 115.6°W, El Centro sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in El Centro today
- Sunrise
- 6:32 am
- Sunset
- 6:34 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 19 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in El Centro, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 19 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 Centro between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.