What time is it in Rancho Santa Margarita, California?
5:05:41 AM
Friday, September 25, 2026. Pacific Daylight Time, UTC−7:00.
- Time zone
- Pacific Daylight Time
- UTC offset
- UTC−7:00
- Daylight saving
- In force now
- Population
- 46,353
Daylight saving in Rancho Santa Margarita
Rancho Santa Margarita is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
Rancho Santa Margarita sits at 33.63°N, 117.60°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Rancho Santa Margarita.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Rancho Santa Margarita it is highest at 12:41 pm today — 41 minutes after clock noon.
At 117.6°W, Rancho Santa Margarita sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in Rancho Santa Margarita today
- Sunrise
- 6:40 am
- Sunset
- 6:43 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 23 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Rancho Santa Margarita, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 28 minutes, from 14 hours 23 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 55 minutes in December.
At 33.6°N that puts Rancho Santa Margarita between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.