Local time · Monterey
What time is it in Monterey, California?
1:50:15AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 29,015
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Monterey
Monterey is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Monterey sits at 36.60°N, 121.88°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Monterey.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Monterey it is highest at 11:51 am today — 9 minutes before clock noon.
At 121.9°W, Monterey sits 8 minutes of solar time west of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 8 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Monterey today
- Sunrise
- 6:43 am
- Sunset
- 5:00 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 16 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 40 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 16 minutes in Monterey, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 1 minute, from 14 hours 40 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 39 minutes in December.
At 36.6°N that puts Monterey between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.