Local time · Palm Springs
What time is it in Palm Springs, California?
1:51:26AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 45,453
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Palm Springs
Palm Springs is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Palm Springs sits at 33.80°N, 116.54°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Palm Springs.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Palm Springs it is highest at 11:30 am today — 30 minutes before clock noon.
At 116.5°W, Palm Springs sits 14 minutes of solar time east of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 14 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Palm Springs today
- Sunrise
- 6:16 am
- Sunset
- 4:44 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 27 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 24 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 27 minutes in Palm Springs, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 30 minutes, from 14 hours 24 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 54 minutes in December.
At 33.8°N that puts Palm Springs between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.