| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +8h | Becomes +7h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +9h | Becomes +8h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +11h | Becomes +12h on 1 Nov |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +16h | Becomes +17h on 1 Nov |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +17h | Becomes +18h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | +3h | Becomes +2h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | ±0h |
Oakland, United States runs on UTC−7. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−8 in winter, UTC−7 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. The time difference between Oakland and New York is 3 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 6 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–15:00 in Oakland lines up with 12:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Oakland and London is 8 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hour a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–10:00 in Oakland lines up with 17:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Oakland and Tokyo is 16 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hour a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 17:00–18:00 in Oakland lines up with 09:00–10:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Oakland.
Oakland (United States) is home to roughly 440K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:03, sunset at 18:54. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−8 in winter, UTC−7 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 38° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
United States
Capital
Washington DC
Continent
North America
Time Zone
PDT · America/Los_Angeles
Coordinates
37.80°N, 122.27°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
Oakland was among the first ports in the world to build for container ships, from 1962, and the decision moved much of the Bay Area's cargo traffic across the water from San Francisco within a decade.
The clock: Oakland keeps Pacific Time. Gertrude Stein's line about there being no there there was about her demolished childhood home, not the city — a distinction Oakland has been correcting since 1937.
Oakland lies at 122.3°W. Its time zone, UTC−8, is built around the 120°W meridian. The 2.3° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 9 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:09 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 69 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:09.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 47m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 33m. The swing between them is 5h 15m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Oakland the sun comes up earliest on 14 June at 05:46, while the latest sunset waits until 30 June at 20:35. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Oakland that civil twilight runs about 26 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 31 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Oakland, United States is America/Los_Angeles with a current UTC offset of UTC−7.
Oakland has an estimated population of 440K and is located at coordinates 37.80°N, 122.27°W.
Oakland gets 14h 47m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 33m on its shortest, averaging 12h 12m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Oakland falls at about 12:09 on UTC−8 standard time, because the city sits 2.3° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Container Port That Changed Shipping: Oakland was among the first ports in the world to build for container ships, from 1962, and the decision moved much of the Bay Area's cargo traffic across the water from San Francisco within a decade.