"Lines vary at field offices, but Gonzalez [DMV Spokesperson] said the average wait time is about two to three hours -- an assertion that Patterson [Assemblyman] is challenging."
"People have got two-hour wait times on top of the two- to three-hour wait times in the waiting room," he said. "The DMV is not only failing to do their responsibility, they are essentially trying to cover it up."
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/California-lawmaker-a...
Appointments for that location are all booked a month and a half into the future.
Even just tacking on the 75 minutes the DMV "don't have a way to track" [1] without scaling it up, that gets 3-3.5 hours, which isn't too far off from the 4+ hour anecdata in other comments.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17743559 https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/California-lawmaker-a...