| 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 |
Sacramento, 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 Sacramento 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 Sacramento lines up with 12:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Sacramento 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 Sacramento lines up with 17:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Sacramento 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 Sacramento 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 Sacramento.
Sacramento (United States) is home to roughly 525K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:00, sunset at 18:51. 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 39° 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
38.58°N, 121.49°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
After repeated floods in the 1850s and 60s, Sacramento physically lifted its downtown by up to about three metres, jacking buildings up and filling the streets beneath. The old ground floors are still down there, now basements.
The clock: Sacramento keeps Pacific Time and is California's capital, though it is only the state's sixth-largest city, behind Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco and Fresno.
Sacramento lies at 121.5°W. Its time zone, UTC−8, is built around the 120°W meridian. The 1.5° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 6 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:06 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 66 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:06.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 52m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 28m. The swing between them is 5h 24m. 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 Sacramento the sun comes up earliest on 15 June at 05:41, while the latest sunset waits until 29 June at 20:34. 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 Sacramento that civil twilight runs about 26 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 32 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 Sacramento, United States is America/Los_Angeles with a current UTC offset of UTC−7.
Sacramento has an estimated population of 525K and is located at coordinates 38.58°N, 121.49°W.
Sacramento gets 14h 52m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 28m on its shortest, averaging 12h 12m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Sacramento falls at about 12:06 on UTC−8 standard time, because the city sits 1.5° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City Raised Ten Feet: After repeated floods in the 1850s and 60s, Sacramento physically lifted its downtown by up to about three metres, jacking buildings up and filling the streets beneath.