Local time · Santa Ana
What time is it in Santa Ana, California?
1:51:18AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 316,184
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Santa Ana
Santa Ana is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Santa Ana sits at 33.74°N, 117.88°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Santa Ana.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Santa Ana it is highest at 11:35 am today — 25 minutes before clock noon.
At 117.9°W, Santa Ana sits 8 minutes of solar time east of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 8 minutes before noon.
Daylight in Santa Ana today
- Sunrise
- 6:22 am
- Sunset
- 4:49 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 28 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 24 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 28 minutes in Santa Ana, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 29 minutes, from 14 hours 24 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 54 minutes in December.
At 33.7°N that puts Santa Ana between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.