What time is it in Santa Ana, California?
5:05:18 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
- 316,184
Daylight saving in Santa Ana
Santa Ana is currently on daylight saving time. The next change is Sunday, November 1, 2026, when 2:00 am becomes 1:00 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 Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Santa Ana it is highest at 12:43 pm today — 43 minutes after clock noon.
At 117.9°W, Santa Ana sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.
Daylight in Santa Ana today
- Sunrise
- 6:42 am
- Sunset
- 6:44 pm
- Day length
- 12 hours 2 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 24 minutes
Today runs 12 hours 2 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.