Local time · Richmond
What time is it in Richmond, California?
1:50:22AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 115,353
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Richmond
Richmond is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Richmond sits at 37.95°N, 122.36°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Richmond.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Richmond it is highest at 11:53 am today — 7 minutes before clock noon.
At 122.4°W, Richmond 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 Richmond today
- Sunrise
- 6:48 am
- Sunset
- 4:59 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 11 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 48 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 11 minutes in Richmond, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 16 minutes, from 14 hours 48 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 32 minutes in December.
At 38.0°N that puts Richmond between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.