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
This page tells you the time right now in Palm Desert, California, United States, in the America/Los_Angeles zone (−8).
Palm Desert, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−8 · America/Los_Angeles
Local time in Palm Desert
UTC−8 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Palm Desert, California.
Sunrise 6:12 AM Solar noon 11:30 AM Sunset 4:49 PM Daylight 10 h 37 min Night 13 h 23 min Civil twilight 5:46 AM – 5:15 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.
The clock in Palm Desert is set to America/Los_Angeles, offset UTC−8. Daylight saving time in use: No.
Today's schedule for Palm Desert: sunrise 6:12 AM, sunset 4:49 PM. That gives 10 h 37 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.