Local time · Santa Clara
What time is it in Santa Clara, California?
1:51:13AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 133,132
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Santa Clara
Santa Clara is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Santa Clara sits at 37.36°N, 121.97°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Santa Clara.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Santa Clara it is highest at 11:52 am today — 8 minutes before clock noon.
At 122.0°W, Santa Clara sits 8 minutes of solar time west of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 8 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Santa Clara today
- Sunrise
- 6:45 am
- Sunset
- 4:58 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 13 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 44 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 13 minutes in Santa Clara, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 9 minutes, from 14 hours 44 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 35 minutes in December.
At 37.4°N that puts Santa Clara between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.