Local time · Santa Rosa
What time is it in Santa Rosa, California?
1:51:04AM
- Time zone
- PST
- America/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- −8:00
- Standard is −8:00
- Daylight saving
- Not in force
- Starts Sun, Mar 14
- Population
- 177,524
- City proper
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About this clock
Daylight saving in Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa is currently on standard time. The next change is Sunday, March 14, 2027, when 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time.
Santa Rosa sits at 38.45°N, 122.71°W. For sunrise and sunset there — which do depend on exactly where it is, unlike the clock — see sunrise and sunset in Santa Rosa.
Clock time against sun time
The clock says the same thing everywhere in Pacific Standard Time, but the sun does not. Over Santa Rosa it is highest at 11:55 am today — 5 minutes before clock noon.
At 122.7°W, Santa Rosa sits 11 minutes of solar time west of Pacific Standard Time’s 120° meridian, so on standard time the sun peaks 11 minutes after noon.
Daylight in Santa Rosa today
- Sunrise
- 6:50 am
- Sunset
- 4:59 pm
- Day length
- 10 hours 9 minutes
- Longest day
- 14 hours 51 minutes
Today runs 10 hours 9 minutes in Santa Rosa, and the day is getting shorter by 2 minutes a day. Across the year it swings 5 hours 22 minutes, from 14 hours 51 minutes at the June solstice down to 9 hours 29 minutes in December.
At 38.4°N that puts Santa Rosa between Kailua at 2 hours 22 minutes and Fairbanks at 18 hours 9 minutes.