What time is it in Santa Clarita, California?

Santa Clarita 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 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.

The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Daylight Time, but the sun does not. Over Santa Clarita it is highest at 12:45 pm today — 45 minutes after clock noon.

At 118.5°W, Santa Clarita sits comfortably inside its zone. Daylight saving adds another hour on top until the clocks change.

Today runs 12 hours 2 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.