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Local time · San Juan Capistrano

What time is it in San Juan Capistrano, California?

1:51:28AM

Friday, November 13, 2026Pacific Standard Time · UTC−8:00 · standard time
Time zone
PST
America/Los_Angeles
UTC offset
−8:00
Standard is −8:00
Daylight saving
Not in force
Starts Sun, Mar 14
Population
35,469
City proper

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Daylight saving in San Juan Capistrano

San Juan Capistrano is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 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 Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over San Juan Capistrano it is highest at 11:34 am today — 26 minutes before clock noon.

At 117.7°W, San Juan Capistrano sits 9 minutes of solar time east of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 9 minutes before noon.

Daylight in San Juan Capistrano today

Sunrise
6:20 am
Sunset
4:49 pm
Day length
10 hours 29 minutes
Longest day
14 hours 23 minutes

Today runs 10 hours 29 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.

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