| 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 |
Palm Springs, 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 Palm Springs 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 Palm Springs lines up with 12:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Palm Springs 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 Palm Springs lines up with 17:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Palm Springs 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 Palm Springs 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 Palm Springs.
Palm Springs (United States) is home to roughly 45K people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:39, sunset at 18:32. 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 34° 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
33.83°N, 116.55°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
Palm Springs holds one of the densest concentrations of mid-century modern architecture in the world, built from the 1940s to 60s when it was Hollywood's weekend desert. Its Modernism Week each February draws tens of thousands.
The clock: Palm Springs keeps Pacific Time. Its aerial tramway climbs about 1,800 vertical metres in ten minutes, from desert to alpine forest.
Palm Springs lies at 116.5°W. Its time zone, UTC−8, is built around the 120°W meridian. The 3.5° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 14 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:46 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 46 minutes and pushing solar noon to 12:46.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 24m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 54m. The swing between them is 4h 30m. At this latitude the seasons are visible in the clock, but never dramatic.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Palm Springs the sun comes up earliest on 13 June at 05:35, while the latest sunset waits until 1 July at 20:01. 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 Palm Springs that civil twilight runs about 25 minutes at the equinox.
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 Palm Springs, United States is America/Los_Angeles with a current UTC offset of UTC−7.
Palm Springs has an estimated population of 45K and is located at coordinates 33.83°N, 116.55°W.
Palm Springs gets 14h 24m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 54m on its shortest, averaging 12h 11m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Palm Springs falls at about 11:46 on UTC−8 standard time, because the city sits 3.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
More Mid-Century Modern Than Anywhere: Palm Springs holds one of the densest concentrations of mid-century modern architecture in the world, built from the 1940s to 60s when it was Hollywood's weekend desert.