Chester in numbers
- Coordinates
- 40.3063, -121.2320
- Elevation
- 1382 m above sea level
- Population
- 2 144
- Region
- California
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 3750 km away
- Same name
- 42 more places in the world share this name
The current local time in Chester, California, United States is displayed here for the America/Los_Angeles time zone (−8).
Chester, United States
Monday, 2 November 2026
UTC−8 · America/Los_Angeles
Local time in Chester
UTC−8 · no daylight saving time
Chester keeps America/Los_Angeles clock_time.
Sunrise 6:37 AM Solar noon 11:50 AM Sunset 5:02 PM Daylight 10 h 26 min Night 13 h 34 min Civil twilight 6:09 AM – 5:31 PM
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Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Nearby, Lake Almanor West and Foxwood go by the same clock as Chester.
Deliveries to Chester are sorted by 12 postal codes.
Chester keeps the America/Los_Angeles zone, which is UTC−8. Whether summer time is observed: No.
Today in Chester, daylight opens at 6:37 AM and closes at 5:02 PM. That span measures 10 h 26 min.