Local time · Merced
What time is it in Merced, California?
1:49:30AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 96,073
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Merced
Merced is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Merced sits at 37.31°N, 120.47°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Merced.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Merced it is highest at 11:46 am today — 14 minutes before clock noon.
At 120.5°W, Merced sits almost exactly on Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in Merced today
- Sunrise
- 6:39 am
- Sunset
- 4:52 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 14 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 44 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 14 minutes in Merced, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 9 minutes, from 14 hours 44 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 35 minutes in December.
At 37.3°N that puts Merced between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.