| 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 |
Tacoma, 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 Tacoma 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 Tacoma lines up with 12:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Tacoma 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 Tacoma lines up with 17:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Tacoma 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 Tacoma 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 Tacoma.
Tacoma (United States) is home to roughly 220K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 07:07, sunset at 18:52. 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 47° 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
47.25°N, 122.44°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed on 7 November 1940, four months after opening, twisting apart in a 65 km/h wind. The film of it is shown in engineering courses worldwide as a lesson in aeroelastic flutter.
The clock: Tacoma keeps Pacific Time. Its Museum of Glass sits beside a bridge of glass by Dale Chihuly, who is from the city.
Tacoma lies at 122.4°W. Its time zone, UTC−8, is built around the 120°W meridian. The 2.4° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 10 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:10 rather than 12:00. Under daylight saving the clocks move 60 minutes forward, widening the gap to 70 minutes and pushing solar noon to 13:10.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 15h 56m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 8h 28m. The swing between them is 7h 28m. 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 Tacoma the sun comes up earliest on 17 June at 05:13, while the latest sunset waits until 27 June at 21:10. 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 Tacoma that civil twilight runs about 31 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 40 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 Tacoma, United States is America/Los_Angeles with a current UTC offset of UTC−7.
Tacoma has an estimated population of 220K and is located at coordinates 47.25°N, 122.44°W.
Tacoma gets 15h 56m of daylight on its longest day and 8h 28m on its shortest, averaging 12h 15m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Tacoma falls at about 12:10 on UTC−8 standard time, because the city sits 2.4° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Bridge That Tore Itself Apart: The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed on 7 November 1940, four months after opening, twisting apart in a 65 km/h wind. The film of it is shown in engineering courses worldwide as a lesson in aeroelastic flutter.