What time is it in Imperial Beach, California?
5:55:37 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
- 25,568
Daylight saving in Imperial Beach
Imperial Beach is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Imperial Beach sits at 32.57°N, 117.11°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Imperial Beach.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Imperial Beach it is highest at 12:40 pm today — 40 minutes after clock noon.
At 117.1°W, Imperial Beach sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in Imperial Beach today
- Sunrise
- 6:38 am
- Sunset
- 6:41 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 18 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Imperial Beach, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 17 minutes, from 14 hours 18 minutes at the June solstice down to 10 hours in December.
At 32.6°N that puts Imperial Beach between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.