Local time · Oakland
What time is it in Oakland, California?
1:50:27AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 443,554
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Oakland
Oakland is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Oakland sits at 37.77°N, 122.23°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Oakland.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Oakland it is highest at 11:53 am today — 7 minutes before clock noon.
At 122.2°W, Oakland sits 9 minutes of solar time west of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 9 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Oakland today
- Sunrise
- 6:47 am
- Sunset
- 4:58 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 12 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 47 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 12 minutes in Oakland, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 14 minutes, from 14 hours 47 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 33 minutes in December.
At 37.8°N that puts Oakland between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.