Local time · Palo Alto
What time is it in Palo Alto, 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
- 67,658
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Palo Alto
Palo Alto is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Palo Alto sits at 37.40°N, 122.14°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Palo Alto.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Palo Alto it is highest at 11:52 am today — 8 minutes before clock noon.
At 122.1°W, Palo Alto 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 Palo Alto today
- Sunrise
- 6:46 am
- Sunset
- 4:59 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 13 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 45 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 13 minutes in Palo Alto, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 10 minutes, from 14 hours 45 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 35 minutes in December.
At 37.4°N that puts Palo Alto between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.