Local time · Palmdale
What time is it in Palmdale, California?
1:50:09AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 162,536
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Palmdale
Palmdale is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Palmdale sits at 34.59°N, 118.11°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Palmdale.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Palmdale it is highest at 11:36 am today — 24 minutes before clock noon.
At 118.1°W, Palmdale sits 8 minutes of solar time east of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 8 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Palmdale today
- Sunrise
- 6:24 am
- Sunset
- 4:48 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 24 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 28 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 24 minutes in Palmdale, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 38 minutes, from 14 hours 28 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 50 minutes in December.
At 34.6°N that puts Palmdale between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.