What time is it in Thousand Oaks, California?
5:05:12 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
- 124,229
Daylight saving in Thousand Oaks
Thousand Oaks is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Thousand Oaks sits at 34.19°N, 118.87°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Thousand Oaks.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Thousand Oaks it is highest at 12:47 pm today — 47 minutes after clock noon.
At 118.9°W, Thousand Oaks 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 Thousand Oaks today
- Sunrise
- 6:46 am
- Sunset
- 6:48 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 26 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Thousand Oaks, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 34 minutes, from 14 hours 26 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 52 minutes in December.
At 34.2°N that puts Thousand Oaks between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.