Local time · Tacoma
What time is it in Tacoma, Washington?
1:49:36AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 228,202
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Tacoma
Tacoma is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Tacoma sits at 47.25°N, 122.46°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Tacoma.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Tacoma it is highest at 11:54 am today — 6 minutes before clock noon.
At 122.5°W, Tacoma sits 10 minutes of solar time west of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 10 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Tacoma today
- Sunrise
- 7:11 am
- Sunset
- 4:36 pm
- Day length
- 9 hours 25 minutes
- Longest day
- 15 hours 56 minutes
Today runs 9 hours 25 minutes in Tacoma, and the day is getting shorter by 3 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 7 hours 28 minutes, from 15 hours 56 minutes at the June solstice down to 8 hours 28 minutes in December.
At 47.3°N that puts Tacoma between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.