Culver City DMV: Hours, Services & Appointment Guide (2026)

1Culver City’s Westside anchor office

Culver City is a city in Los Angeles County, and its DMV field office sits on Washington Boulevard at 11400 W Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90066. The office’s own page on dmv.ca.gov labels it a field office, not a kiosk, not a partner, and not a driver-safety office, and its photo on dmv.ca.gov is captioned “Culver City Field Office”. That label matters, because it tells you what kind of visit this is: a full counter-service office where licensing, testing, title transfers, registration, plates and placards, replacements, and records are all listed as services provided, plus a self-serve kiosk on site. Readers often assume a smaller-city office is a limited-service site. On the official listing, Culver City is not — and the comparison table in section 4 proves the point, because two offices in the same metro area really do list shorter menus on their own pages. If your errand is on Culver City’s nine-category list, this office can handle it at the counter, subject to the appointment rules in section 3.

Culver City is the Westside anchor of its cluster. It is the office its neighbours’ pages keep naming first or near-first in their nearby lists: Santa Monica names Culver City first, Inglewood names Culver City first, West Hollywood names it third, Hollywood names it fifth, and Torrance’s list reaches it through Inglewood. That pattern is not a ranking, but it is useful evidence of how the DMV’s own system groups these offices: when a Westside reader cannot get a Culver City appointment, the system’s own alternatives are Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Torrance, and Lincoln Park — not some second Culver City office, because there is only one field office in Culver City on dmv.ca.gov. Do not let a directory-style listing confuse you on this point. A directory entry labelled “Culver City Field Office” at a Bristol Parkway address does not match the DMV’s own office page, and it should not be treated as a second location. Trust the address on dmv.ca.gov — 11400 W Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90066 — and if any other address claims to be the Culver City DMV, check it against the official office page before travelling.

This page is an independent guide, not the DMV, and it cannot book for you, cannot see live slot availability, and never charges for booking — booking on dmv.ca.gov is free, and any site charging a booking fee is not the DMV. Every office fact below was re-read on the official dmv.ca.gov pages on October 30, 2026. Where a fact could not be verified on an official source, this page says so instead of printing a guess: no street-by-street drive-test route, no motorcycle-testing claim, no commercial-testing claim, no parking description, no wait-time minutes, and no review numbers appear anywhere below. Those omissions are deliberate. The DMV’s office page publishes none of them for Culver City, and a guide that invents them would be less useful, not more, because a reader who plans around an invented parking description or an invented wait time arrives with false confidence. What this page does give you is everything the official listing does publish, checked office by office, plus the traps the listings reveal: a closed Inglewood office that still looks open if you only read its services block, two neighbouring offices with shorter services menus, a Wednesday late start, and grocery-store kiosk hours that must never be mistaken for office hours.

The single most useful thing to know before anything else is the shape of the week. Culver City is open Monday through Friday and closed on Saturday and Sunday, and Wednesday opens an hour late, at 9:00 am instead of 8:00 am. If you remember nothing else from this page, remember the Wednesday rule and the weekend rule, because those two facts answer the largest share of “is it open?” questions about this office, and getting either one wrong costs a wasted trip. The full table, with the two-week calendar that confirms it, is in section 2. The rest of the page is organised the way a reader actually uses an office guide: hours and services first, then how to book, then the honest comparison with nearby offices, then the twelve questions readers ask most, then the kiosk cluster, the partner distinction, drive tests, transit, what to bring, and the timing traps — in that order, so you can stop reading as soon as your question is answered.

2Hours, services & what this office offers

The weekly pattern is the standard California field-office pattern, confirmed on the office’s own dmv.ca.gov page, which prints a two-week calendar (October 25 – November 7, 2026) showing the same pattern in both weeks — the strongest form of this verification, because it is not a single-day snapshot. The calendar and the standing weekly pattern agree exactly, and the nearby lists of six neighbouring offices repeat the same pattern for Culver City, so there is no ambiguity to resolve and no conflicting source to reconcile:

The Wednesday quirk is the detail that catches the most people: every other weekday opens at 8:00 AM, but Wednesday opens at 9:00 AM. Do not show up at 8:00 on a Wednesday expecting the early-bird advantage — you will wait outside for an hour. Weekends are closed, full stop, and this page states that explicitly rather than leaving the weekend blank, because a blank weekend reads as “unknown” and an explicit “closed” answers the single most-asked weekend question about this office. No field office in this cluster lists Saturday hours, so be sceptical of any directory that claims a Saturday opening for Culver City — and do not let a partner’s Saturday hours or a kiosk’s weekend hours be misread as a field-office Saturday opening. The four grocery-store kiosks in section 6 are open on weekends; the Culver City field office is not, and that distinction is the difference between a successful Saturday errand at a kiosk and a wasted Saturday trip to a closed office. One more calendar caution: the DMV page shows a rolling two-week calendar, not just a standing pattern. Hours above are the regular weekly pattern as listed on dmv.ca.gov; check the office page before a holiday-week visit, because holiday closures override the regular pattern, and this page does not print a holiday list as Culver City’s own schedule because the office page does not publish one.

The services list below is reproduced verbatim from the Culver City page’s Services Provided block, with one plain sentence of explanation per category. The explanations stay inside the label — they do not invent sub-services the page does not list:

Payments at the field office are exactly six methods, verbatim from the Culver City page: Cash, Check, Credit Card, Debit Card, Digital Wallet, and Money order. The page states: “DMV field offices accept Cash, Check, Credit Card, Debit Card, Digital Wallet, and Money order.” Bring a payment method from that list, and do not assume a seventh method is accepted because a partner or a kiosk accepts it — partners may apply additional fees (the DMV’s own disclaimer), and kiosks accept Cash, Credit Card, and Debit Card only, which is the kiosk payments list, not the field-office list. Mixing those three lists into one table is one of the easiest ways a guide misleads a reader, so this page keeps them separate: field office (six methods, above), kiosk (three methods, kiosk section), partner (additional fees may apply, partner section).

Before you commit to a counter visit at all, use the DMV’s own framing, which appears on its office pages: most services are available online with the DMV or with a DMV-authorized partner. That is the strongest, officially-sourced answer to “do I even need to go in?” If your errand is a straightforward renewal, a record request, or a replacement that the online system or a kiosk handles, the online or kiosk route saves the trip entirely — and the kiosk section below lists the machines that can do it. The counter visit earns its place when your transaction needs an in-person step: a test, a title transfer with complications, a licensing transaction the online system will not accept, or any errand where you need a person to look at an unusual document. The appointment section that follows is written for that counter visit, not for the online route, and it is careful about what it does and does not promise.

3Booking an appointment here

Book on the DMV’s official scheduler on dmv.ca.gov, and pick Culver City as the location. That sentence is the whole booking instruction, and everything else in this section is about not getting the details wrong around it. First, choose the right appointment type in the scheduler. The DMV’s appointment system distinguishes a field-office appointment from a drive-test appointment, and the distinction matters: the DMV’s own published “Ask DMV” guidance states that field offices require an appointment for a drive test, made online or by calling 1-800-777-0133. That statement reaches this page through the DMV’s published Q&A rather than through live scheduler text, so treat it as DMV guidance and confirm it in the scheduler itself — but do not walk in expecting a road test without a drive-test booking, because that is the one visit type where a general appointment is the wrong ticket. For a general counter visit, book the general appointment type, and bring the confirmation details for any online application or appointment with you.

Second, never plan around a promised slot. This page does not promise a same-day slot, does not quote a booking lead time such as “slots open X weeks out”, and does not describe a reschedule button, because none of that is live data a static guide can verify — availability changes by the hour, and a guide that prints a lead time is printing yesterday’s scheduler state as if it were a rule. The honest formulation is: open the official scheduler, pick Culver City, and see live availability. If Culver City is full on the day you need, check Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Torrance, or Lincoln Park in the same scheduler before you give up on the week, because the comparison table in section 4 exists precisely for that moment — and because hours will not help you choose between them (they are identical), the choice turns on kiosk availability, services listed, and which office actually has a slot. Third, if the scheduler defeats you, the statewide phone line 1-800-777-0133 is the DMV’s published contact route for appointment help. It is the statewide line, not a Culver City direct number — the Culver City page lists no office-specific phone, email, or fax — so do not expect the person who answers to be sitting in the Culver City office, and do not quote the number to anyone as “the Culver City DMV number”.

Fourth, check the calendar twice: once in the scheduler, and once on the office page. The scheduler shows availability; the office page shows the two-week calendar and any special closure in the window. A holiday-week visit is the case where those two checks disagree most often, because the regular Monday-to-Friday pattern is suspended by holidays that the scheduler may or may not surface clearly. This page’s rule is simple: if either source shows a closure, believe the closure. Fifth, a note on the wait-time widgets you will see on the office page. They render as “Closed” when the office is closed — for example, when the page is fetched in the early morning Pacific time — and that is a snapshot of the widget, not a statistic about how long you will wait. Never convert a widget snapshot into “the wait is X minutes”, and never let a third-party wait-time site override the official page: no wait-time minutes appear on this page, because none is published for Culver City in a form a guide can honestly quote.

4Nearby DMV offices: the Westside & South Bay decision table

All open offices below share the same weekly hours pattern as Culver City (Monday–Tuesday and Thursday–Friday 8:00 am–5:00 pm, Wednesday 9:00 am–5:00 pm, Saturday–Sunday closed) as of October 30, 2026. The hours sameness is itself a finding: a reader cannot pick between these offices on hours, so this comparison turns on kiosk availability, services listed, and appointment availability instead. Each row below was read on that office’s own dmv.ca.gov page, except Hawthorne, whose row is footnoted honestly below the table, and except the Los Angeles downtown row, which is a fallback corroborated by neighbouring pages rather than an own-page read. Do not copy hours from Culver City into these rows in your head — each row was verified separately, and the two short menus in this table are the proof that separate verification matters.

Santa Monica is the primary “if Culver City is full” alternative, and the only coastal alternative in this cluster. Its own page shows the Colorado Avenue address, the standard pattern, the kiosk callout, “Self Service Terminals” in services, and the identical six-method payments list, and its services list is identical in categories to Culver City’s. Its nearby list, in turn, names Culver City first — the two offices are each other’s nearest neighbour on the DMV’s own listing. If your errand is anything on the nine-category list, Santa Monica is a like-for-like substitute for Culver City, and the only decision left is which office has an appointment slot. Its nearby list also supplies the partner examples in the partner section below, labelled as Santa Monica-page partners.

West Hollywood is a real field office with a kiosk, but with a shorter services list on its own page — the exception that proves office-by-office verification. Its own page shows the Formosa Avenue address, the standard pattern, the kiosk callout, and the identical six-method payments list, but its Services Provided block as extracted lists only seven categories: Title Transfers, Registration, Plates, Permits, & Placards, Replace Lost/Stolen/Damaged, Records, Request miscellaneous original documents, and Self Service Terminals. Licensing Services and Testing do not appear in the extracted list. West Hollywood is therefore a genuine alternative for registration, title, plates, and replacement business, but a reader whose errand is licensing or testing should check West Hollywood’s own page before travelling and should default to Culver City, Santa Monica, Lincoln Park, or Torrance, which all list those categories. Phrase this carefully in your own planning: the claim is “listed on its own page”, not a proven absence, because a page extraction could in principle drop a block — but the planning consequence is the same either way, which is to check before you travel rather than assume. West Hollywood’s own nearby list also carries a useful kiosk entry: Ralphs in West Hollywood, 7257 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90046, open Mon–Sun 5:00 am–2:00 am — the longest kiosk window in this cluster, but a kiosk window, not an office window.

Lincoln Park is the east-side full-service alternative, listed as “Lincoln Park” on dmv.ca.gov although its address is in Los Angeles, in the Lincoln Heights area. Its own page shows the Mission Road address, the standard pattern, the kiosk callout, the full nine services, and the identical six-method payments list. Its nearby list names Los Angeles (downtown), Montebello, Hollywood, Glendale, West Hollywood, Bell Gardens, and Pasadena — a reminder that Lincoln Park sits in a dense east-LA cluster, not in Culver City’s Westside cluster, so it is a fallback for a reader willing to cross town, not a next-door substitute. Its value in this table is as the “full nine services plus kiosk, east side” row that proves Culver City’s menu is not universal, and as a genuine fallback when every Westside office is full. Note for readers following this site’s own publishing order: the West Hollywood and Lincoln Park guides on this site publish later on the same day as this page, so this page links outward to dmv.ca.gov for those offices rather than to our own not-yet-live guides.

Torrance is the South Bay full-service alternative, and it carries a correction worth knowing. Its own page shows the 220th Street address, the standard pattern, the kiosk callout, the full nine services, and the identical six-method payments list. One directory-style site claims Torrance is closed on Mondays and open only Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday — false against Torrance’s own page, which shows Monday October 26 and Monday November 2 both as 8:00 am–5:00 pm. A Culver City reader searching “Torrance DMV Monday” could otherwise be misled into skipping a perfectly open Monday, so this page names the error pattern plainly: trust the DMV’s own calendar, which shows Torrance open on Mondays, over any directory that says otherwise. Torrance’s nearby list is the South Bay mirror of Culver City’s: the Gardena Commercial Drive Test Center (different hours — see below), San Pedro, Hawthorne, Compton, Long Beach, Inglewood (closed), plus Ralphs in Redondo Beach, Ralphs in Torrance, Superior Grocers in Gardena, and Vons in Redondo Beach.

Hollywood has the most limited menu in this cluster. Its own page shows the Cole Avenue address and the standard hours pattern, but no “This office has a self-serve kiosk” callout, and its Services Provided block as extracted lists only four categories: Licensing Services, Testing, Records, and Request miscellaneous original documents. Title Transfers, Registration, Plates, Permits, & Placards, Replace, and Self Service Terminals do not appear in the extracted list. Hollywood is therefore a licensing-and-testing row (as listed), not a general substitute for Culver City: a reader with registration or title business should not be sent to Hollywood on this page’s evidence. Again, the claim is “listed on its own page” — check before you travel. Hollywood’s nearby list confirms Culver City, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Lincoln Park, and Inglewood (closed) with identical addresses and patterns, and adds two more kiosks: Ralphs in LA Vermont and the La Brea Superior Grocers kiosk already in the kiosk section.

Inglewood — do not travel. Inglewood’s own page is the single most important negative finding on this page. The page still carries the kiosk callout and the full nine-category services list, so a careless scrape that reads only the services block would report Inglewood as a normal open office. But its two-week calendar shows every day from Sunday October 25 through Saturday November 7 as “closed”, and five neighbouring offices’ nearby lists — Culver City, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Hollywood, and Torrance — all repeat Inglewood as “Mon–Sun Closed”. An independent drivers-ed guide reached the same conclusion on October 5, 2026, and excluded Inglewood from its nearest-office table. Inglewood therefore gets a closed row in the table above, a do-not-travel warning here, and a re-check instruction: check Inglewood’s own dmv.ca.gov page before ever travelling there, because a fortnight of closed days is a closure signal, not a hours pattern. Its grocery-store kiosk is a different thing and stays open on its own hours — Superior Grocers in Inglewood, 11202 S. Crenshaw Blvd., Inglewood, CA 90303, Mon–Sun 7:00 am–10:00 pm, from Inglewood’s own nearby list — and the finished distinction matters, because it is exactly the confusion that sends readers to a closed office: a kiosk is not the field office.

Two further rows, honestly sourced. Hawthorne (3700 W El Segundo Boulevard, Hawthorne, CA 90250, standard pattern, kiosk available) appears identically on the nearby lists of Culver City, Torrance, and Inglewood, and is included here as a South Bay fallback on that corroboration — but its own page was not directly read for this guide, so treat its row as corroborated rather than own-page verified, and check Hawthorne’s own page before travelling. Los Angeles (downtown) (3615 S Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007, standard pattern, kiosk available) is named on the nearby lists of Culver City, West Hollywood, Lincoln Park, Hollywood, and Inglewood; it is a downtown fallback, not a Westside substitute, and the same check-its-own-page note applies. Finally, the Gardena Commercial Drive Test Center (14825 S Avalon Blvd, Gardena, CA 90248) is listed on Torrance’s and Inglewood’s nearby lists with different hours — Monday–Tuesday 7:00 am–4:00 pm, Wednesday 8:00 am–4:00 pm, Thursday–Friday 7:00 am–4:00 pm, Saturday–Sunday closed, and no kiosk badge. Mention it only as a commercial-drive-test centre with its own earlier hours: never as a general Culver City alternative, and never as proof that Culver City does commercial testing, because Culver City’s own page lists “Testing” without any commercial qualifier, and this page does not upgrade that label.

5Frequently asked questions

The kiosk story: one on site, four grocery kiosks nearby

Culver City’s kiosk position is strong: one machine inside the office, and four grocery-store machines on the office’s own nearby list, all open seven days a week on store hours. That cluster is the practical answer to “the office is closed on Saturday, so what do I do on Saturday?” — if, and only if, your errand is a kiosk errand. The table below is taken entirely from Culver City’s own nearby list, so every address and every hour in it is a DMV-listing fact, not a directory claim. The one thing the table cannot tell you is whether your specific errand is within a given kiosk’s range, because the DMV itself says the range varies by kiosk location. Treat the table as a map of where to try, not as a guarantee that a given machine will complete a given transaction, and keep the field-office/kiosk distinction sharp in your planning: the office closes at 5:00 pm and on weekends; the kiosks do not.

Further kiosks on neighbouring offices’ lists extend the cluster, and the finished page labels each with its source office so a reader can check it: Ralphs in West Hollywood (7257 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90046, Mon–Sun 5:00 am–2:00 am — from West Hollywood’s page, the longest window in the cluster); Ralphs in LA Vermont (2600 S. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90007, Mon–Sun 5:00 am–1:00 am — from Hollywood’s page); Ralphs in Torrance (5035 Pacific Coast Hwy., Torrance, CA 90505, Mon–Sun 6:00 am–1:00 am — from Torrance’s page); Superior Grocers in Inglewood (11202 S. Crenshaw Blvd., Inglewood, CA 90303, Mon–Sun 7:00 am–10:00 pm — from Inglewood’s page, remembering that the Inglewood field office itself is closed); Ralphs in Redondo Beach (1413 Hawthorne Blvd., Redondo Beach, CA 90278, Mon–Sun 6:00 am–12:00 am — from Torrance’s page); Vons in Redondo Beach (4001 Inglewood Ave., Redondo Beach, CA 90278, Mon–Sun 5:00 am–12:00 am — from Torrance’s page); and Superior Grocers in Gardena (15000 Crenshaw Blvd., Gardena, CA 90249, Mon–Sun 7:00 am–10:00 pm — from Torrance’s page). Kiosk payments are Cash, Credit Card, and Debit Card only, per the DMV’s kiosk pages — a narrower list than the field office’s six methods, and one more reason to check the machine’s terms before you go. Our own DMV kiosk guide explains the kiosk route in general; this page’s table is the Culver City cluster specifically.

DMV partners near Culver City: registration help for an extra fee

Scope honesty first: Culver City’s own nearby list as fetched on October 30, 2026, contains field offices and kiosks in its top 10 — no business-partner entry appears in that list, and this page does not invent a Culver City partner. What it can do, honestly, is explain the partner concept in the DMV’s own words — “Businesses authorized by the DMV to handle certain registration services, often with much shorter wait times (if any!). Additional fees may be applied by this partner.” — note that partners handle certain registration services only, not licensing or testing, and give the nearest partner examples from the neighbouring Santa Monica page, labelled as such. The single most useful partner fact for a reader is in that disclaimer: partner help is not free the way a field-office visit is. No partner fee amount is printed anywhere on this page, because no fee amount was verified on dmv.ca.gov.

The partner lesson generalises: a partner is a registration shortcut with a fee and a membership or hours catch, never a second DMV office. If your errand is licensing or testing, no partner on these lists helps you — that business belongs at a field office, and for a Culver City reader that means Culver City itself or a full-service neighbour from section 4. If your errand is a registration service and you value a shorter wait over a free visit, a partner is a legitimate option, provided you confirm the fee, the membership rule, and the hours on the partner’s own DMV listing before you go. The Dakota Financial row is included precisely because a guide that silently drops awkward rows teaches readers to trust every row it prints; a guide that flags the closed row teaches readers to check every row, which is the safer habit.

Drive tests at Culver City: what to expect

Culver City lists “Testing” as a service, and that is the whole verified claim — this section explains what can honestly be built on it and what cannot. What can be built: a drive test is booked through the DMV appointment system as a drive-test appointment type, not as a general visit, and the DMV’s published “Ask DMV” guidance states that field offices require an appointment for a drive test, made online or by calling 1-800-777-0133. That guidance reaches this page through the DMV’s published Q&A, so it is attributed as DMV guidance and should be confirmed in the scheduler itself — but the planning rule it supports is solid: do not walk in expecting a road test without a drive-test booking. For a drive test, the same published guidance says to bring the permit, vehicle registration, and auto insurance. What cannot be built: no street-by-street route, no description of the test area, no motorcycle-testing claim, and no commercial-testing claim, because none of those specifics appears on the Culver City page. The Gardena Commercial Drive Test Center exists as a separate listing with its own earlier hours (Monday–Tuesday 7:00 am–4:00 pm, Wednesday 8:00 am–4:00 pm, Thursday–Friday 7:00 am–4:00 pm, Saturday–Sunday closed) — it is the commercial-test centre in this region’s listings, and its existence must not be read backwards into a claim that Culver City does commercial testing. Readers preparing for a test should also read our driving test appointment guide, which covers the booking path in general; this page’s job is the Culver City-specific facts, and it stops exactly where those facts stop.

Transit & getting there

This section makes no transit claim beyond the address, deliberately. Use a transit trip planner on the day of travel and check that day’s service, because routes and schedules change, and do not rely on a printed walk time from a directory. No bus line number, no station name, and no “X minutes’ walk” appears on this page, because none was verified on an official source for this office, and a stale walk time is worse than no walk time: it sends a reader to the wrong stop with false confidence. The only location fact this section anchors on is the office address itself, 11400 W Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90066, which is what you enter into the planner. One piece of planning advice that needs no timetable: confirm the return journey as well as the outward one. The office closes at 5:00 pm, and a late-afternoon visit that runs long can strand a transit-dependent reader if the return service has thinned out by evening — that is planning advice, not a timetable claim, and it applies to every office on this site, not just Culver City. The official page also publishes no parking description for Culver City, so this page publishes none either: if parking matters to your visit, check on arrival rather than trusting a directory’s parking paragraph, which is exactly the kind of unverified detail this guide refuses to invent.

What to bring

The Culver City page does not publish a Culver City-specific document checklist, so this section gives only general, widely-published preparation guidance and labels it as general: bring the confirmation details for any online application or appointment, original documents (not photocopies) for the transaction, a payment method from the accepted-payments list in section 2, and anything the specific transaction’s DMV instructions require. Read the DMV’s instructions for your specific transaction before you leave, because the checklist that matters is the transaction’s, not the office’s — the office does not publish its own, and any guide that prints a “Culver City checklist” as if the office issued it is dressing up general advice as an official document. For a first REAL ID, independent guides consistently describe the document pattern as proof of identity, proof of Social Security number, and two proofs of California residency — but that pattern was not verified on the Culver City page, so treat it as general guidance to verify against the DMV’s REAL ID guidance before you travel, not as this office’s published requirement. For a drive test, the DMV’s published guidance says to bring the permit, vehicle registration, and auto insurance. Our document checklist covers the general preparation in more detail, and our holiday schedule guide is worth checking before a holiday-week visit, since holiday closures override the regular pattern in section 2. One last general point: if a document is unusual — a trust document, a court order, a foreign document — describe it exactly when you call the statewide line, because the counter’s answer will depend on the exact document, and a vague description earns a vague answer.

Timing that is actually verified

Everything in this section is a timing claim that survives checking against dmv.ca.gov on October 30, 2026 — and, just as usefully, the timing claims that do not survive. Verified: Wednesday opens at 9:00 am, not 8:00 am, in both calendar weeks. Verified: Saturday and Sunday are closed, in both calendar weeks. Verified: Friday October 30, 2026 — build day itself — is an 8:00 am–5:00 pm day with no special closure visible in the calendar window. Verified: Inglewood is closed all fourteen days from October 25 through November 7, on its own page and on five neighbours’ lists. Verified: Torrance is open on Mondays (October 26 and November 2, both 8:00 am–5:00 pm), against a directory claim that it is closed on Mondays. Not verified, and therefore not printed as fact anywhere on this page: any wait-time minutes (the office page’s widgets render as “Closed” when fetched while the office is closed, which is a snapshot, not a statistic); any “quietest hour” or “busiest day” pattern (no such pattern is published on the office page, and review-derived patterns are forbidden on this page by the task rules); any booking lead time; any Saturday opening for any field office in this cluster; and any holiday list presented as Culver City’s own schedule. The discipline behind that list is the whole editorial method of this site in one paragraph: the live dmv.ca.gov page governs, a cached copy does not, a directory does not, and a guide that says “not published” where the official page is silent is more useful than a guide that fills the silence with a guess. Culver City is also a useful case study in why you should distrust thin directory content in general: the Torrance Monday error, the Inglewood-as-open error, the Saturday-opening error, and the Bristol Parkway address error are four different ways the same failure happens — a secondary site prints something the DMV’s own page does not say, and a reader plans a trip around it. Every office fact on this page was re-read on dmv.ca.gov on October 30, 2026, so that if any of those errors touches Culver City itself, this page is the correction, not the source.

Official office page: dmv.ca.gov/portal/field-office/culver-city/ · Statewide phone: 1-800-777-0133 (statewide, not a Culver City direct number) · More offices: all California DMV offices · Appointments in general: California DMV appointment guide

Last verified against dmv.ca.gov: October 30, 2026