What time is it in Oceanside, California?
5:54:13 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
- 170,941
Daylight saving in Oceanside
Oceanside is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Oceanside sits at 33.22°N, 117.31°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Oceanside.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Oceanside it is highest at 12:40 pm today — 40 minutes after clock noon.
At 117.3°W, Oceanside sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in Oceanside today
- Sunrise
- 6:39 am
- Sunset
- 6:41 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 21 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Oceanside, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 24 minutes, from 14 hours 21 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 57 minutes in December.
At 33.2°N that puts Oceanside between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.