Local time · San Francisco
What time is it in San Francisco, California?
1:51:21AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 827,526
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in San Francisco
San Francisco is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
San Francisco sits at 37.73°N, 123.03°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in San Francisco.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over San Francisco it is highest at 11:56 am today — 4 minutes before clock noon.
At 123.0°W, San Francisco sits 12 minutes of solar time west of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 12 minutes after noon.
Daylight in San Francisco today
- Sunrise
- 6:50 am
- Sunset
- 5:02 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 12 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 47 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 12 minutes in San Francisco, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 14 minutes, from 14 hours 47 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 33 minutes in December.
At 37.7°N that puts San Francisco between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.