What time is it in Mount Vernon, Washington?
5:53:55 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
- 35,344
Daylight saving in Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Mount Vernon sits at 48.42°N, 122.31°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Mount Vernon.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Mount Vernon it is highest at 1:00 pm today — 60 minutes after clock noon.
At 122.3°W, Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon today
- Sunrise
- 7:00 am
- Sunset
- 7:00 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours
- Longest day
- 16 hours 7 minutes
Today runs 12 hours in Mount Vernon, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 7 hours 48 minutes, from 16 hours 7 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 18 minutes in December.
At 48.4°N that puts Mount Vernon between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.