Local time · San Luis Obispo
What time is it in San Luis Obispo, California?
1:51:41AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 49,729
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
San Luis Obispo sits at 35.27°N, 120.67°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in San Luis Obispo.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over San Luis Obispo it is highest at 11:46 am today — 14 minutes before clock noon.
At 120.7°W, San Luis Obispo 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 Luis Obispo today
- Sunrise
- 6:36 am
- Sunset
- 4:57 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 22 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 32 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 22 minutes in San Luis Obispo, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 46 minutes, from 14 hours 32 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 47 minutes in December.
At 35.3°N that puts San Luis Obispo between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.