Current time in Irvine, United States
The current local time in Irvine is shown below. Irvine observes PST in winter and PDT during daylight saving time.
What's the daylight saving status?
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- America/Los_Angeles
- Standard abbreviation
- PST
- DST abbreviation
- PDT
- Observes daylight saving
- Yes
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Irvine?
Irvine uses Pacific Time alongside the rest of California, with federal DST. The city sits at around 117.8 degrees west, east of the Pacific Standard Time meridian, so wall time runs slightly ahead of mean solar noon in standard months. Orange County's proximity to Los Angeles makes the entertainment industry's East Coast time anchoring relevant locally as well. The substantial Asian-American population, particularly Korean and Chinese, sustains commercial scheduling tied to home-country business hours via after-hours conference calls and weekend operations.
What are the working hours in Irvine?
Technology (Broadcom, Blizzard Entertainment, Edwards Lifesciences) and the universities anchor a substantially white-collar workforce. The Spectrum Center and the Irvine Business Complex run conventional 09:00 to 17:30 office days, often with summer-Friday early closures. The substantial Korean and Chinese expatriate community sustains restaurants and retail with later evening hours than mainstream Orange County norms. Federal holidays apply alongside the academic-year rhythm of UC Irvine. The Irvine Global Village Festival in mid-September is the largest civic calendar event.
Where is Irvine?
Irvine sits in central Orange County, around 60 kilometres south-east of downtown Los Angeles and 130 kilometres north of San Diego. The city proper holds around 310,000 residents, the third-largest in Orange County. The city was master-planned in the 1960s on land formerly held by the Irvine Company, producing an unusually orderly grid of low-density commercial villages and residential neighbourhoods. The University of California, Irvine campus occupies around 6 square kilometres in the south. John Wayne Airport sits at the city's north-eastern edge.