Tuesday · August · 11 · 2026
DST“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
— Leo Tolstoy
Sun & daylight
The sun rises at 06:12 and sets at 19:46 in Los Angeles today, giving 13h 33m of daylight. Solar noon is at 12:59.
06:12
Sunrise
12:59
Noon
19:46
Sunset
Midnight
00:59
Sunrise
06:12
Solar noon
12:59
Sunset
19:46
Solar midnight
00:59
Daylight
13h 33m
Daylight runs about 14h 25m around the June solstice and 9h 52m around the December solstice.
Daylight saving time
Los Angeles observes daylight saving time. In 2026, clocks move forward to UTC−7 on March 8 and move back to UTC−8 on November 1. Los Angeles is currently on daylight saving time.
Mar 8
Forward · UTC−7
Nov 1
Back · UTC−8
Aug 11
Today
The shaded band marks the daylight saving period.
Public holidays
United States has no public holidays in August 2026.
Architecture
Los Angeles builds in single objects rather than in streets, and most of them are meant to be read at a distance or from a car. Its houses carry as much of the city's architectural history as its public buildings.
Completed 2015
Kohn Pedersen Fox
A car museum on Wilshire Boulevard, rebuilt inside a department store from 1962. Kohn Pedersen Fox wrapped the existing box in ribbons of stainless steel held off a red painted skin, so the building appears to be moving while standing still. The ribbons are structural only to themselves and do nothing for the rooms behind. It is a facade that argues its subject rather than describing its plan.
Completed 2004
Morphosis
A state transport department office at the south end of the civic centre. Morphosis clad it in perforated aluminium panels that open and close with the sun, so the elevation changes through the day with nobody operating it. The entrance is a slot cut through the mass, and the circulation is pushed outside as exposed stairs. It made a government office into a civic object at a time when downtown had few of them.
Completed 2003
Frank Gehry
A concert hall for the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Bunker Hill. Frank Gehry wrapped the auditorium in curved stainless steel sails that carry no structure and enclose the lobbies and gardens around it. Inside, the hall is a vineyard plan in Douglas fir, with the audience seated around the orchestra on every side. The acoustician and the architect worked the room out together, which is why the interior is not a version of the exterior.
Completed 1997
Richard Meier
A museum and research campus on a ridge above the freeway. Richard Meier broke the programme into separate pavilions on two grids, one following the ridge and one turned to the road below. Everything is clad in travertine cut so it splits to a rough face, and in white metal panels on a fixed square module. The plan is a hill town rather than a building, held together by the grid instead of by a facade.
Completed 1949
Charles and Ray Eames
A house and studio in Pacific Palisades, built as Case Study House number eight. Charles and Ray Eames assembled it from catalogue steel sections and factory sash ordered off the shelf, then set the infill panels in colour. Two boxes sit against a retaining wall with a courtyard between them, tucked into the meadow rather than placed on it. Industrial parts were meant to make housing cheap, and this is the version where they made it delicate.