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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 Jose
Home to roughly 1,021,795 residents, San Jose is a substantial regional city in United States. Its terrain rests around 25 m of elevation.
San Jose keeps time on the America/Los_Angeles IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. Sun behaviour here follows the temperate pattern of the northern hemisphere, with the steepest seasonal day-length swings around the equinoxes.
United States's currency is USD and its calling prefix is +1. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent San Jose's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in San Jose
The current local time in San Jose, United States is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
San Jose uses the IANA time zone America/Los_Angeles, currently UTC−7.
Whether San Jose 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 Jose is currently 3 hours behind New York.
San Jose is currently 8 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for San Jose are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (37.3382, -121.8863).
United States uses the USD currency and the +1 international dialing code.
San Jose sits at 37.3382° N, 121.8863° W, 25 m above sea level, in United States.