What time is it in Seal Beach, California?

Seal Beach is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.

Seal Beach sits at 33.75°N, 118.07°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Seal Beach.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Seal Beach it is highest at 12:43 pm today — 43 minutes after clock noon.

At 118.1°W, Seal Beach sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.

Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Seal Beach, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 30 minutes, from 14 hours 24 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 54 minutes in December.

At 33.8°N that puts Seal Beach between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.