What time is it in La Quinta, California?
5:55:25 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
- 39,907
Daylight saving in La Quinta
La Quinta 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 Quinta sits at 33.64°N, 116.27°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in La Quinta.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over La Quinta it is highest at 12:36 pm today — 36 minutes after clock noon.
At 116.3°W, La Quinta sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in La Quinta today
- Sunrise
- 6:35 am
- Sunset
- 6:37 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 23 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in La Quinta, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 28 minutes, from 14 hours 23 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 55 minutes in December.
At 33.6°N that puts La Quinta between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.