Cottonwood in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.6582, -121.9710
- Elevation
- 50 m above sea level
- Population
- 3 850
- Region
- California
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 3855 km away
- Same name
- 32 more places in the world share this name
Learn the current time in Cottonwood, California, United States, a place in the America/Los_Angeles time zone (−8).
Cottonwood, United States
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC−8 · America/Los_Angeles
Local time in Cottonwood
UTC−8 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Cottonwood.
Sunrise 6:45 AM Solar noon 11:53 AM Sunset 5:01 PM Daylight 10 h 17 min Night 13 h 43 min Civil twilight 6:17 AM – 5:29 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.
Today's times for Cottonwood: the sun is up at 6:45 AM and down at 5:01 PM. That means 10 h 17 min of daylight.
Madison and Citrona, both nearby, hold the same time as Cottonwood.
The number of postal codes covering Cottonwood is 5.
Local clocks in Cottonwood answer to America/Los_Angeles, set UTC−8 from UTC. Daylight saving time: No.