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Time in San Francisco, California, United States now

10:36:49PM

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

San Francisco switches to daylight saving time at 02:00AM on Sunday, March 8. The time is set one hour forward.
Sun: ↑ 06:36AM ↓ 06:06PM (11h 30m) - More info - Make San Francisco time default - Add to favorite locations

UTC -8

Pacific Time (PT)
now 3 hours behind New York

From 8 March 2026: UTC -7 / Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
The time in San Francisco is normally 3 hours behind the time in New York, but because these time zones don't share the same start and end times for daylight saving time, the time in San Francisco can for a short while be 2 or 4 hours behind the time in New York.
The IANA time zone identifier for San Francisco is America/Los_Angeles.

Sunday November 2 2025

Latest change: Winter time started

Sunday March 8 2026

Next change: Summer time starts

Sunrise: 06:36AM
Sunset: 06:06PM
Day length: 11h 30m
Solar noon: 12:21PM
The current local time in San Francisco is 21 minutes ahead of apparent solar time.