Local time · Santa Maria
What time is it in Santa Maria, California?
1:51:17AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 111,346
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Santa Maria
Santa Maria is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Santa Maria sits at 34.93°N, 120.44°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Santa Maria.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Santa Maria it is highest at 11:46 am today — 14 minutes before clock noon.
At 120.4°W, Santa Maria 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 Maria today
- Sunrise
- 6:34 am
- Sunset
- 4:57 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 23 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 30 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 23 minutes in Santa Maria, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 42 minutes, from 14 hours 30 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 48 minutes in December.
At 34.9°N that puts Santa Maria between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.