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Time in Santa Monica, California, United States now

04:44:31PM

Monday, November 3, 2025

Santa Monica switched to standard time at 02:00AM on Sunday, November 2. The time was set one hour back.
Sun: ↑ 06:15AM ↓ 05:00PM (10h 46m) - More info - Make Santa Monica 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 Santa Monica 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 Santa Monica can for a short while be 2 or 4 hours behind the time in New York.
The IANA time zone identifier for Santa Monica is America/Los_Angeles.

Sunday November 2 2025

Latest change: Winter time started

Sunday March 8 2026

Next change: Summer time starts

Sunrise: 06:15AM
Sunset: 05:00PM
Day length: 10h 46m
Solar noon: 11:38AM
The current local time in Santa Monica is 22 minutes behind apparent solar time.