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9–17 in San Diego vs UTC
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- Juneteenth19 Jun 2026
- Father's Day21 Jun 2026
- Independence Day (substitute day)3 Jul 2026
- Independence Day4 Jul 2026
- Labor Day7 Sept 2026
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About San Diego
Home to roughly 1,423,851 residents, San Diego is a notable city in United States. Its terrain rests around 19 m of elevation.
For computers and clocks, San Diego is anchored to the America/Los_Angeles time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the subtropical belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (32.72°).
United States's currency is USD and its calling prefix is +1. Beyond the live clock, every datapoint on this page — sun events, holidays, time-zone offsets — is also available as machine-readable JSON, ready for agents and integrations.
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Questions about time in San Diego
The current local time in San Diego, United States is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
San Diego uses the IANA time zone America/Los_Angeles, currently UTC−7.
Whether San Diego observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (America/Los_Angeles) is the source of truth.
San Diego is currently 3 hours behind New York.
San Diego is currently 8 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for San Diego are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (32.7157, -117.1611).
United States uses the USD currency and the +1 international dialing code.
San Diego sits at 32.7157° N, 117.1611° W, 19 m above sea level, in United States.