Local time · Elk Grove
What time is it in Elk Grove, California?
1:51:10AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 182,797
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Elk Grove
Elk Grove is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Elk Grove sits at 38.41°N, 121.38°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Elk Grove.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Elk Grove it is highest at 11:49 am today — 11 minutes before clock noon.
At 121.4°W, Elk Grove sits almost exactly on Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in Elk Grove today
- Sunrise
- 6:45 am
- Sunset
- 4:54 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 9 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 51 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 9 minutes in Elk Grove, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 22 minutes, from 14 hours 51 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 29 minutes in December.
At 38.4°N that puts Elk Grove between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.