It is 3:18 pm in America/Los_Angeles

America/Los_Angeles is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Los Angeles in the United States. It is running at UTC-8 right now, abbreviated PST, and the local date is Thursday, November 5, 2026. The zone is on its standard offset at the moment.

What time is it in America/Los_Angeles right now

3:18 pm on Thursday, November 5, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 15:18. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is a whole 8 hours behind UTC, so a UTC timestamp converts here by changing the hour and leaving the minutes exactly as they are.

3 other zones read UTC-8 at this instant: America/Tijuana, America/Vancouver, Pacific/Pitcairn. They agree on the clock now and need not agree in six months, because each one carries its own daylight saving rule.

The UTC offset of America/Los_Angeles

An offset of UTC-8 names the meridian 120.0 degrees west, and Los Angeles, CA sits at 118.24 degrees west. Those are within 7 minutes of solar time of each other, so this is one of the zones whose clock genuinely matches its own sun.

Because this zone moves its clocks, UTC-8 is only today's answer. It runs at UTC-8 for the winter part of the year and UTC-7 for the summer part, a difference of 1 hour, and any gap memorised against it is wrong for part of the year.

Daylight saving in America/Los_Angeles

America/Los_Angeles does observe daylight saving. The next change is on March 14, 2027: at 1:00 am local the clocks go forward, and UTC-8 becomes UTC-7. That hour is skipped and never appears on the clock at all, which is why a wall clock time in this zone is not always a single instant.

Every clock change the database has for this zone in 2025, 2026 and 2027, with the exact local reading either side of the jump.

How the offset of America/Los_Angeles has changed since 1970

Read on 1 January and 1 July of each year, which is the cheapest pair of samples that shows both the winter offset and whether the clocks moved that summer. Nothing has changed: America/Los_Angeles has been on the same pair of readings for all 57 years sampled. A rule change that began and ended between July and the following January is invisible to this sampling, so the table is a shape rather than a complete edit history.

The earliest summer shift this sampling sees here is 1970, and the zone has kept moving its clocks since. The dates the change falls on have moved several times even where the rule has not.

Countries and regions that use America/Los_Angeles

One country uses America/Los_Angeles: the United States, which keeps 29 zones in total and has a population of about 334,910,000.

Inside the United States, 5 states use this identifier: California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington.

Cities in the America/Los_Angeles time zone

The 113 cities this site covers inside America/Los_Angeles, each with a live clock and today's sunrise and sunset worked out from its own coordinate. They share an identifier, so they share a clock reading to the minute, and they do not share a sunrise: that is set by latitude and longitude.

The sun against the clock in America/Los_Angeles

Worked out for Los Angeles, CA, the city this site covers inside the zone, at 34.05 degrees north, 118.24 degrees west. The sun rises at 6:16 am and sets at 4:56 pm, giving 10 hours 40 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 11:37 am, which is 23 minutes before clock noon.

That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: Los Angeles, CA sitting 1.8 degrees east of the UTC-8 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 16.4 minutes ahead of mean time, and the hour of daylight saving this zone adds in summer. Full sunrise and sunset times for Los Angeles.

Convert America/Los_Angeles to another time zone

America/Los_Angeles is one of the zones the converter publishes under its own name, as PST, so these pages convert it directly rather than by matching an offset.

Questions about America/Los_Angeles

What time is it in America/Los_Angeles right now?

3:18 pm on Thursday, November 5, 2026, as this page was served. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.

What is the UTC offset of America/Los_Angeles?

UTC-8 at this instant, and it alternates between UTC-8 in winter and UTC-7 in summer.

Does America/Los_Angeles observe daylight saving time?

Yes. The next change is March 14, 2027, when the clocks go forward.

What is the abbreviation for America/Los_Angeles?

PST at this instant. The letters change with the season, because the standard and summer offsets have separate names.

Which countries use America/Los_Angeles?

United States.

Why store America/Los_Angeles instead of UTC-8?

Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone alone has two offsets in a year, and 3 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC-8 cannot tell them apart; a record storing America/Los_Angeles keeps working through every future rule change.

Other time zones in the Americas

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