What time is it in Santa Barbara, California?

Santa Barbara 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 Barbara sits at 34.40°N, 119.71°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Santa Barbara.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Santa Barbara it is highest at 12:50 pm today — 50 minutes after clock noon.

At 119.7°W, Santa Barbara sits well toward the western edge of its zone, which is why the sun stays up later here than the clock suggests. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.

Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Santa Barbara, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 36 minutes, from 14 hours 27 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 51 minutes in December.

At 34.4°N that puts Santa Barbara between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.