Local time · Modesto
What time is it in Modesto, California?
1:49:37AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 220,592
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Modesto
Modesto is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Modesto sits at 37.64°N, 121.00°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Modesto.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Modesto it is highest at 11:48 am today — 12 minutes before clock noon.
At 121.0°W, Modesto 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 Modesto today
- Sunrise
- 6:42 am
- Sunset
- 4:54 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 12 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 46 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 12 minutes in Modesto, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 13 minutes, from 14 hours 46 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 33 minutes in December.
At 37.6°N that puts Modesto between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.