Palo Alto in numbers
- Coordinates
- 37.4419, -122.1430
- Population
- 66 853
- Region
- California
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 3906 km away
- Same name
- 83 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Palo Alto, California, United States
The reading below is the local time in Palo Alto, California, United States, taken from the America/Los_Angeles zone (−8).
Palo Alto, United States
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC−8 · America/Los_Angeles
Local time in Palo Alto
UTC−8 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Palo Alto.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:43 AM Solar noon 11:54 AM Sunset 5:04 PM Daylight 10 h 21 min Night 13 h 39 min Civil twilight 6:15 AM – 5:32 PM
Weather in Palo Alto right now
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Palo Alto and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 94301
- 94302
- 94303
- 94304
- 94306
- 94309
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
Other places named Palo Alto
- Palo Alto Aguascalientes, Mexico
- Palo Alto Querétaro, Mexico
- Palo Alto Querétaro, Mexico
- Palo Alto Pennsylvania, United States
- Palo Alto Michoacán, Mexico
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
- Mayfield — 1.7 km
- College Terrace — 2.4 km
- Stanford — 2.8 km
- East Palo Alto — 3.0 km
- Menlo Oaks — 3.5 km
- Menlo Park — 3.7 km
Local time details for Palo Alto
Coverage of Palo Alto by postal code amounts to 6 entries.
Palo Alto tells time by America/Los_Angeles, an offset of UTC−8. Clock shift for daylight saving: No.
The sun breaks the horizon at Palo Alto at 6:43 AM and leaves it at 5:04 PM. Daylight comes to 10 h 21 min.
Time runs the same in Palo Alto and in nearby Mayfield and College Terrace.
Questions and answers
- What time zone includes Palo Alto?
- The time zone that includes Palo Alto is America/Los_Angeles, with an offset of −8.
- Does the clock in Palo Alto move for summer time?
- No.
- What hour brings sunset in Palo Alto?
- The hour is 5:04 PM.