Local time · Santa Clarita
What time is it in Santa Clarita, California?
1:51:35AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 229,159
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Santa Clarita
Santa Clarita is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Santa Clarita sits at 34.42°N, 118.50°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Santa Clarita.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Santa Clarita it is highest at 11:38 am today — 22 minutes before clock noon.
At 118.5°W, Santa Clarita sits almost exactly on Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the clock and the sun agree to within a few minutes.
Daylight in Santa Clarita today
- Sunrise
- 6:25 am
- Sunset
- 4:50 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 25 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 27 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 25 minutes in Santa Clarita, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 37 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 Clarita between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.