What time is it in Seaside, California?
5:54:26 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Pacific Daylight Time, UTC−7:00.
- Time zone
- Pacific Daylight Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−7:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Population
- 31,524
Daylight saving in Seaside
Seaside is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Seaside sits at 36.63°N, 121.82°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Seaside.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Seaside it is highest at 12:58 pm today — 58 minutes after clock noon.
At 121.8°W, Seaside sits well toward the western edge of its zone, which is why the sun stays up later here than the clock suggests. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in Seaside today
- Sunrise
- 6:57 am
- Sunset
- 6:59 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 40 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Seaside, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 1 minute, from 14 hours 40 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 39 minutes in December.
At 36.6°N that puts Seaside between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.