What time is it in Santa Monica, California?

Santa Monica 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 Monica sits at 34.01°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 Monica.

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

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

Today runs 12 hours 2 minutes in Santa Monica, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 4 hours 32 minutes, from 14 hours 25 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 53 minutes in December.

At 34.0°N that puts Santa Monica between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.