Local time · El Monte
What time is it in El Monte, California?
1:50:24AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 104,639
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in El Monte
El Monte is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 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 Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over El Monte it is highest at 11:36 am today — 24 minutes before clock noon.
At 118.0°W, El Monte sits 8 minutes of solar time east of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 8 minutes before noon.
Daylight in El Monte today
- Sunrise
- 6:23 am
- Sunset
- 4:49 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 26 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 26 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 26 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.