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Time in Washington, United States now

05:39:10AM

Wednesday, 4 March, 2026, week 10

Washington switches to daylight saving time at 02:00AM on Sunday, 8 March. The time is set one hour forward.
Sun: ↑ 06:36AM ↓ 05:52PM (11h 16m) - More info - Make Washington time default - Add to favourite locations

UTC -8

Pacific Time (PT)
now 3 hours behind New York

From 8 March 2026: UTC -7 / Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
The time in Washington is normally 3 hours behind the time in New York, but because these time zones don't share the same start and end times for daylight saving time, the time in Washington can for a short while be 2 or 4 hours behind the time in New York.
The IANA time zone identifier for Washington is America/Los_Angeles.

Sunday November 2 2025

Latest change: Winter time started

Sunday March 8 2026

Next change: Summer time starts

Sunrise: 06:36AM
Sunset: 05:52PM
Day length: 11h 16m
Solar noon: 12:14PM
The current local time in Washington is 14 minutes ahead of apparent solar time.

Each of the stripes represents one year.
Graphics by Ed Hawkins, using data from NOAA.
See showyourstripes.info.