Local time · San Jose
What time is it in San Jose, California?
1:51:00AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 997,368
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in San Jose
San Jose is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
San Jose sits at 37.30°N, 121.81°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in San Jose.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over San Jose it is highest at 11:51 am today — 9 minutes before clock noon.
At 121.8°W, San Jose sits almost exactly on Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in San Jose today
- Sunrise
- 6:44 am
- Sunset
- 4:58 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 14 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 44 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 14 minutes in San Jose, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 9 minutes, from 14 hours 44 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 35 minutes in December.
At 37.3°N that puts San Jose between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.