Local time · Hayward
What time is it in Hayward, California?
1:50:23AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 158,440
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Hayward
Hayward is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Hayward sits at 37.63°N, 122.10°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Hayward.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Hayward it is highest at 11:52 am today — 8 minutes before clock noon.
At 122.1°W, Hayward sits 8 minutes of solar time west of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 8 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Hayward today
- Sunrise
- 6:46 am
- Sunset
- 4:58 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 12 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 46 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 12 minutes in Hayward, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 12 minutes, from 14 hours 46 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 34 minutes in December.
At 37.6°N that puts Hayward between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.