Local time · Riverside
What time is it in Riverside, California?
1:49:38AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 323,757
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Riverside
Riverside is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Riverside sits at 33.94°N, 117.39°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Riverside.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Riverside it is highest at 11:33 am today — 27 minutes before clock noon.
At 117.4°W, Riverside sits 10 minutes of solar time east of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 10 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Riverside today
- Sunrise
- 6:20 am
- Sunset
- 4:47 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 27 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 25 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 27 minutes in Riverside, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 31 minutes, from 14 hours 25 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 53 minutes in December.
At 33.9°N that puts Riverside between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.