What time is it in El Monte, California?
5:04:50 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
- 104,639
Daylight saving in El Monte
El Monte 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 Monte sits at 34.07°N, 118.03°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in El Monte.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over El Monte it is highest at 12:43 pm today — 43 minutes after clock noon.
At 118.0°W, El Monte sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in El Monte today
- Sunrise
- 6:42 am
- Sunset
- 6:44 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 26 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in El Monte, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 33 minutes, from 14 hours 26 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 53 minutes in December.
At 34.1°N that puts El Monte between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.