Sacramento in numbers
- Coordinates
- 38.5666, -121.4680
- Population
- 524 943
- Region
- California
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 3815 km away
- Same name
- 56 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Sacramento, California, United States
This page shows what the clocks read right now in Sacramento, California, United States, in the America/Los_Angeles zone (−8).
Sacramento, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−8 · America/Los_Angeles
Local time in Sacramento
UTC−8 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Sacramento, California.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:41 AM Solar noon 11:51 AM Sunset 5:00 PM Daylight 10 h 19 min Night 13 h 41 min Civil twilight 6:13 AM – 5:28 PM
Weather in Sacramento right now
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Sacramento and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 17968
- 42372
- 88347
- 94203
- 94204
- 94205
- 94206
- 94207
- 94208
- 94209
- 94211
- 94229
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
- Long Beach 474 140
Other places named Sacramento
- Sacramento Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Sacramento Coahuila, Mexico
- Sacramento San Luis Potosí, Mexico
- Sacramento Kentucky, United States
- Sacramento Panamá Oeste Province, Panama
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
- Oak Park — 1.7 km
- Highland Park — 2.1 km
- Elvas — 2.5 km
- Fruitridge Pocket — 3.9 km
- North Sacramento — 4.5 km
- Brighton — 4.8 km
About the time in Sacramento
The time zone assigned to Sacramento is America/Los_Angeles, held at UTC−8. Daylight saving time applies: No.
The sun rises over Sacramento today at 6:41 AM and slips away at 5:00 PM. That leaves 10 h 19 min of daylight.
Oak Park and Highland Park, both nearby, hold the same time as Sacramento.
Postal codes assigned across Sacramento total 12.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone determines the local time in Sacramento?
- Local time in Sacramento is determined by America/Los_Angeles, with an offset of −8.
- Is daylight saving time used in Sacramento?
- No.
- Sunset in Sacramento is at what time?
- At 5:00 PM.