Local time · Santa Cruz
What time is it in Santa Cruz, California?
1:51:27AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 62,581
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Santa Cruz sits at 36.97°N, 122.04°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Santa Cruz.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Santa Cruz it is highest at 11:52 am today — 8 minutes before clock noon.
At 122.0°W, Santa Cruz 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 Cruz today
- Sunrise
- 6:44 am
- Sunset
- 4:59 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 15 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 42 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 15 minutes in Santa Cruz, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 5 minutes, from 14 hours 42 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 37 minutes in December.
At 37.0°N that puts Santa Cruz between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.