What time is it in La Mesa, California?
5:54:50 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
- 60,767
Daylight saving in La Mesa
La Mesa is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
La Mesa sits at 32.77°N, 117.02°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in La Mesa.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over La Mesa it is highest at 12:39 pm today — 39 minutes after clock noon.
At 117.0°W, La Mesa sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in La Mesa today
- Sunrise
- 6:38 am
- Sunset
- 6:40 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 19 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in La Mesa, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 19 minutes, from 14 hours 19 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 59 minutes in December.
At 32.8°N that puts La Mesa between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.