Palm Desert in numbers
- Coordinates
- 33.7378, -116.3700
- Population
- 51 869
- Region
- California
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 3543 km away
What time is it in Palm Desert, California, United States
This page tells you the time right now in Palm Desert, California, United States, in the America/Los_Angeles zone (−7).
Palm Desert, United States
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−7 · America/Los_Angeles
Local time in Palm Desert
UTC−7 · daylight saving time is active
Local time in Palm Desert, California.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:52 AM Solar noon 12:32 PM Sunset 6:12 PM Daylight 11 h 20 min Night 12 h 40 min Civil twilight 6:27 AM – 6:37 PM
Weather in Palm Desert right now
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Palm Desert and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 92211
- 92255
- 92260
- 92261
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.
Largest cities in California
- Los Angeles 3 820 914
- San Diego 1 404 452
- San Jose 997 368
- San Francisco 827 526
- Fresno 542 107
- Sacramento 524 943
Same time zone — America/Los_Angeles
- Los Angeles United States
- San Diego United States
- San Jose United States
- San Francisco United States
- Seattle United States
- Portland United States
Nearby places
- Indian Wells — 3.3 km
- Palm Desert Country — 5.0 km
- Rancho Mirage — 5.9 km
- Silver Spur Mobile Manor — 6.6 km
- Cahuilla Hills — 6.9 km
- Bermuda Dunes — 7.5 km
Palm Desert: clock, sun and surroundings
The clock in Palm Desert is set to America/Los_Angeles, offset UTC−7. Daylight saving time in use: Yes.
Today's schedule for Palm Desert: sunrise 6:52 AM, sunset 6:12 PM. That gives 11 h 20 min of daylight.
The time given for Palm Desert holds for nearby Indian Wells and Palm Desert Country too.
Palm Desert carries 4 postal codes.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone information applies to Palm Desert?
- The applicable time zone information is America/Los_Angeles, with an offset of −7.
- Is there any clock change for daylight saving in Palm Desert?
- Daylight saving in Palm Desert: Yes.
- I need the sunrise and sunset times for Palm Desert.
- They are 6:52 AM and 6:12 PM.