What time is it in Santa Monica?

09:36:19

Friday 13 November 2026

Santa Monica, United States
Time zone UTC−08:00
Next clock change: 14 March 2027
Sunrise 06:24 · sunset 16:51

Time difference with Santa Monica

Santa Monica is on UTC−08:00 right now: 8 hours behind UTC in winter and 7 hours behind in summer.

City	Time	Compared with Santa Monica
London United Kingdom	17:36	8 hours ahead
New York United States	12:36	3 hours ahead
Los Angeles United States	09:36	same time
Paris France	18:36	9 hours ahead
Berlin Germany	18:36	9 hours ahead
Dubai United Arab Emirates	21:36	12 hours ahead
New Delhi India	23:06	13 h 30 min ahead
Singapore Singapore	01:36	16 hours ahead
Hong Kong Hong Kong	01:36	16 hours ahead
Tokyo Japan	02:36	17 hours ahead
Sydney Australia	04:36	19 hours ahead
São Paulo Brazil	14:36	5 hours ahead

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Daylight saving time in Santa Monica

Date	What happens
Sunday 14 March 2027	at 02:00 it becomes 03:00: clocks go forward by one hour (UTC−08:00 → UTC−07:00, summer time)
Sunday 7 November 2027	at 02:00 it becomes 01:00: clocks go back by one hour (UTC−07:00 → UTC−08:00)

Last change: Sunday 1 November 2026 (clocks went back by one hour).

History of local time in Santa Monica

Period	Legal time
since 1948	UTC−8, summer time UTC−7
until 1947	UTC−8 all year round

Official time zone (IANA database): America/Los_Angeles. Daylight saving time in the United States: all dates · Daylight saving time around the world

Upcoming eclipses visible from Santa Monica

14 January 2029 · solar eclipsepartial, 52 % of the Sun covered at 08:21
30 March 2033 · solar eclipsepartial, 27 % of the Sun covered at 10:20
11 January 2028 · partial lunar eclipsevisible, maximum at 20:13
25 June 2029 · total lunar eclipsepartly (Moon low on the horizon), maximum at 20:22

All eclipses until 2035

Nearby places

Nearest time zone border: 380 km away, Bullhead City is 1 hour ahead of Santa Monica in winter and on the same time in summer.

Place	Distance
El Segundo	13 km
Inglewood	14 km
Lennox	16 km
Manhattan Beach	17 km
Hawthorne	17 km
Hermosa Beach	19 km
Westmont	19 km
Lawndale	19 km

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Sun and Moon in Santa Monica

Sunrise: 06:24
Sunset: 16:51
Day length: 10 h 26 min
Tomorrow: −1 min

Dawn 05:58, dusk 17:18, solar noon 11:38. Shortest day: 21 December 2026 (9 h 53 min); longest: 21 June 2026 (14 h 25 min).

Over the next twelve months: earliest sunrise at 05:42 (4 June 2027), latest at 07:19 (7 November 2027); earliest sunset at 16:44 (30 November 2026), latest at 20:09 (24 June 2027).

Moon tonight: waxing crescent, 21 % illuminated
Moonrise 10:30 · moonset 20:14 · next: first quarter on 17 November 2026 at 03:47 · moon calendar

Other cities in the United States

New York3 hours ahead
Los Angeles
Brooklyn3 hours ahead
Chicago2 hours ahead
Queens3 hours ahead
Houston2 hours ahead
Phoenix1 hour ahead
Philadelphia3 hours ahead
San Antonio2 hours ahead
Manhattan3 hours ahead
San Diego
Bronx3 hours ahead

Time in the United States: all cities and time zones

Good to know about the time in Santa Monica

Santa Monica, west of Los Angeles, is on Pacific Time, UTC−8 in winter and UTC−7 in summer. It is 9 hours behind Paris most of the year.

Its pier marks the end of Route 66, which starts in Chicago: along the way, you cross three time zones, from Central to Pacific by way of Mountain Time, and put your watch back twice. In Arizona, which does not observe daylight saving time, the road in fact keeps the same time as California all summer. Time in Phoenix