Local time · Whittier
What time is it in Whittier, California?
1:50:28AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 85,589
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Whittier
Whittier is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Whittier sits at 33.97°N, 118.02°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Whittier.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Whittier it is highest at 11:36 am today — 24 minutes before clock noon.
At 118.0°W, Whittier sits 8 minutes of solar time east of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 8 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Whittier today
- Sunrise
- 6:22 am
- Sunset
- 4:49 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 27 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 25 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 27 minutes in Whittier, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 32 minutes, from 14 hours 25 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 53 minutes in December.
At 34.0°N that puts Whittier between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.