Local time · Sacramento
What time is it in Sacramento, California?
1:51:02AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 535,798
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Sacramento
Sacramento is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Sacramento sits at 38.57°N, 121.47°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Sacramento.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Sacramento it is highest at 11:50 am today — 10 minutes before clock noon.
At 121.5°W, Sacramento sits almost exactly on Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in Sacramento today
- Sunrise
- 6:46 am
- Sunset
- 4:54 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 8 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 52 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 8 minutes in Sacramento, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 24 minutes, from 14 hours 52 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 28 minutes in December.
At 38.6°N that puts Sacramento between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.