Local time · Escondido
What time is it in Escondido, California?
1:50:31AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 148,847
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Escondido
Escondido is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Escondido sits at 33.13°N, 117.07°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Escondido.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Escondido it is highest at 11:32 am today — 28 minutes before clock noon.
At 117.1°W, Escondido 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 Escondido today
- Sunrise
- 6:17 am
- Sunset
- 4:47 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 30 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 21 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 30 minutes in Escondido, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 23 minutes, from 14 hours 21 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 58 minutes in December.
At 33.1°N that puts Escondido between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.