Permanent daylight saving time in Oregon.In Portland the sun would rise after 8 AM on 106 days a year, up from 0.

The latest sunrise would move from 7:57 AM to 8:51 AM, and winter's earliest sunset from 4:27 PM to 5:27 PM. Summer stays as it is.

A year of daylight in Portland: a band of blue day edged in orange and violet, stepping up and down on the two days the clocks change. — Each column is one day of 2027, with midnight at the top and bottom. A color is the sky's at that minute. A cliff is a day the clocks change. Move across the picture to read a day.

Portland on each clock
Measure	Today's clocks	Permanent DST	Permanent standard
Latest sunrise	7:57 AM	8:51 AM	7:51 AM
Earliest sunrise	5:21 AM	5:21 AM	4:21 AM
Earliest sunset	4:27 PM	5:27 PM	4:27 PM
Latest sunset	9:04 PM	9:04 PM	8:04 PM
Days with sunrise after 8 AM	0	106	0
Days with sunrise after 9 AM	0	0	0
Days with sunset before 5 PM	74	0	81
Days with sunset after 7 PM	197	208	130
Hours of light after 5 PM on weekdays	528	598	358

Oregon, city by city.

Oregon keeps more than one clock. On Mountain time: Ontario. On Pacific time: Portland, Salem, Eugene, Bend.

City	Latest sunrise today	On permanent DST	Days after 8 AM today	On permanent DST	Earliest sunset today	On permanent DST	Latest sunset on permanent standard
Portland	7:57 AM	8:51 AM	0	106	4:27 PM	5:27 PM	8:04 PM
Salem	7:57 AM	8:50 AM	0	108	4:31 PM	5:31 PM	8:03 PM
Eugene	7:55 AM	8:47 AM	0	105	4:34 PM	5:34 PM	8:00 PM
Bend	7:48 AM	8:40 AM	0	96	4:27 PM	5:27 PM	7:53 PM
Ontario	8:31 AM	9:23 AM	95	153	5:10 PM	6:10 PM	8:35 PM

Of these cities, Ontario would see the latest sunrise, 9:23 AM on January 2.

Questions.

What time would the sun rise in Portland in winter?

As late as 8:51 AM, on January 2. Today the latest sunrise is 7:57 AM, on November 6.

How many dark mornings would Portland have?

The sun would rise after 8 AM on 106 days a year. Today it rises after 8 AM on 0 days.

What would winter evenings look like in Portland?

The earliest sunset of the year would move from 4:27 PM to 5:27 PM. The sun now sets before 5 PM on 74 days a year; on permanent daylight saving time it never would.

What would permanent standard time do in Portland?

Winter would stay as it is, and summer's clock would fall an hour back. The earliest sunrise would be 4:21 AM and the latest sunset 8:04 PM, instead of 5:21 AM and 9:04 PM today.

Neighbors.

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Sol's Sky tab at dusk in New York, the glow arching up from the horizon.

Figures are for calendar 2027 unless a heading says otherwise, worked out with NOAA's solar equations and the IANA time zone database (version 2026e) at each place's coordinates from GeoNames. Sunrise and sunset put the sun's center 0.833° below a flat horizon, so hills move a real place by minutes. Download the figures.