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About San Francisco
Home to roughly 873,965 residents, San Francisco is a mid-sized urban centre in United States. Its terrain rests around 16 m of elevation.
San Francisco keeps time on the America/Los_Angeles IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. The temperate, northern-hemisphere setting at 37.77° latitude defines its day-length swing across the year — long summer evenings and shorter winter days.
Locally, prices are quoted in USD and the international dialing code is +1. This page exposes San Francisco's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in San Francisco
The current local time in San Francisco, United States is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
San Francisco uses the IANA time zone America/Los_Angeles, currently UTC−7.
Whether San Francisco 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 Francisco is currently 3 hours behind New York.
San Francisco is currently 8 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for San Francisco are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (37.7749, -122.4194).
United States uses the USD currency and the +1 international dialing code.
San Francisco sits at 37.7749° N, 122.4194° W, 16 m above sea level, in United States.