What time is it in San Juan Capistrano, California?
5:05:33 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
- 35,469
Daylight saving in San Juan Capistrano
San Juan Capistrano is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am local time.
San Juan Capistrano sits at 33.50°N, 117.65°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in San Juan Capistrano.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over San Juan Capistrano it is highest at 12:42 pm today — 42 minutes after clock noon.
At 117.7°W, San Juan Capistrano sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in San Juan Capistrano today
- Sunrise
- 6:41 am
- Sunset
- 6:43 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 23 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in San Juan Capistrano, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 27 minutes, from 14 hours 23 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 56 minutes in December.
At 33.5°N that puts San Juan Capistrano between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.