Local time · San Marcos
What time is it in San Marcos, 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
- 96,620
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in San Marcos
San Marcos is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
San Marcos sits at 33.13°N, 117.17°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in San Marcos.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over San Marcos it is highest at 11:32 am today — 28 minutes before clock noon.
At 117.2°W, San Marcos sits 11 minutes of solar time east of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 11 minutes before noon.
Daylight in San Marcos today
- Sunrise
- 6:18 am
- Sunset
- 4:47 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 30 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 21 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 30 minutes in San Marcos, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 23 minutes, from 14 hours 21 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 58 minutes in December.
At 33.1°N that puts San Marcos between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.