Local time · Petaluma
What time is it in Petaluma, California?
1:50:32AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 59,393
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Petaluma
Petaluma is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Petaluma sits at 38.24°N, 122.63°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Petaluma.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Petaluma it is highest at 11:54 am today — 6 minutes before clock noon.
At 122.6°W, Petaluma sits 11 minutes of solar time west of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 11 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Petaluma today
- Sunrise
- 6:50 am
- Sunset
- 4:59 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 10 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 50 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 10 minutes in Petaluma, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 20 minutes, from 14 hours 50 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 30 minutes in December.
At 38.2°N that puts Petaluma between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.