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Time in San Francisco, California, United States now

06:15:20PM

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Sun: ↑ 07:25AM ↓ 06:23PM (10h 58m) - More info - Make San Francisco time default - Add to favorite locations

Time zone info for San Francisco

UTC -7

Pacific Time (PT)
now 3 hours behind New York

From 2 November 2025: UTC -8 / Pacific Standard Time (PST)
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 March 9 2025

Latest change: Summer time started

Switched to UTC -7 / Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).
The time was set forward one hour from 02:00AM to 03:00AM local time.

Sunday November 2 2025

Next change: Winter time starts

Switching to UTC -8 / Pacific Standard Time (PST).
The time will be set back one hour from 02:00AM to 01:00AM local time.

Time difference
from San Francisco

Los Angeles	0
Chicago	+2 hours
New York	+3 hours
Toronto	+3 hours
São Paulo	+4 hours
UTC	+7 hours
Lagos	+8 hours
London	+8 hours
Johannesburg	+9 hours
Paris	+9 hours
Zurich	+9 hours
Cairo	+10 hours
Istanbul	+10 hours
Moscow	+10 hours
Dubai	+11 hours
Mumbai	+12.5 hours
Hong Kong	+15 hours
Shanghai	+15 hours
Singapore	+15 hours
Tokyo	+16 hours
Sydney	+18 hours

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Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for San Francisco

Sunrise: 07:25AM
Sunset: 06:23PM
Day length: 10h 58m
Solar noon: 12:54PM
The current local time in San Francisco is 54 minutes ahead of apparent solar time.

San Francisco on the map

Location: California, United States
Latitude: 37.77. Longitude: -122.42
Population: 809,000
Elevation: 20 m

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Best restaurants in San Francisco

#1 Mersea Restaurant - American and vegetarian options food
#2 Acquerello - Italian and contemporary food
#3 Benu - Asian and new american food
#4 Gary Danko - French and new american food

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