Current time in Santa Ana, California right now
It is 2:05 pm in Santa Ana, California 🇺🇸 right now, on Saturday, September 26, 2026. The city keeps America/Los_Angeles, which is PDT at UTC-7, so Santa Ana is 7 hours behind of UTC, where it is 9:05 pm. The sun rose in Santa Ana at 6:42 am and sets at 6:42 pm, which is 12 hours of daylight.
What time is it in Santa Ana right now?
The time in Santa Ana, California is 2:05 pm, 14:05 on a 24 hour clock, on Saturday September 26, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the America/Los_Angeles rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Santa Ana sits at 33.75 degrees north and 117.87 degrees west, in the subtropical belt and 3,752 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 105.0 degrees west, and the city itself is 12.9 degrees west of that line. Those 12.9 degrees are worth 51 minutes 28 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:43 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Santa Ana time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Santa Ana, California is America/Los_Angeles. Right now it is running at UTC-7 and the abbreviation in force is PDT. Santa Ana is on summer time at the moment, which is why the offset reads UTC-7 rather than the UTC-8 it keeps in winter.
Daylight hours in Santa Ana today
The sun rose in Santa Ana at 6:42 am and sets at 6:42 pm, which is 12 hours of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Santa Ana, is at 12:43 pm, which is 43 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.49 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 54.8 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Santa Ana |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 6:42 am |
| Sunset | 6:42 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:43 pm |
| Day length | 12 hours |
| Evening golden hour | 6:09 pm to 6:58 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 7:07 pm |
The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Santa Ana, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Santa Ana is on the map
The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.
An interactive map of Santa Ana. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Santa Ana on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Santa Ana and major cities
Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Santa Ana.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Santa Ana |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 2:05 pm | 0 | same time as Santa Ana |
| Chicago, Illinois | 4:05 pm | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Santa Ana |
| New York, New York | 5:05 pm | +3 | 3 hours ahead of Santa Ana |
| Toronto, Canada | 5:05 pm | +3 | 3 hours ahead of Santa Ana |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 6:05 pm | +4 | 4 hours ahead of Santa Ana |
| London, United Kingdom | 10:05 pm | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Santa Ana |
| Paris, France | 11:05 pm | +9 | 9 hours ahead of Santa Ana |
| Berlin, Germany | 11:05 pm | +9 | 9 hours ahead of Santa Ana |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 11:05 pm | +9 | 9 hours ahead of Santa Ana |
| Moscow, Russia | 12:05 am | +10 | 10 hours ahead of Santa Ana |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 1:05 am | +11 | 11 hours ahead of Santa Ana |
| Delhi, India | 2:35 am | +12:30 | 12 hours 30 minutes ahead of Santa Ana |
| Singapore, Singapore | 5:05 am | +15 | 15 hours ahead of Santa Ana |
| Hong Kong, China | 5:05 am | +15 | 15 hours ahead of Santa Ana |
| Tokyo, Japan | 6:05 am | +16 | 16 hours ahead of Santa Ana |
| Sydney, Australia | 7:05 am | +17 | 17 hours ahead of Santa Ana |
Best time to call Santa Ana
Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Santa Ana | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | +3 | 9:00 am to 3:00 pm | 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Los Angeles | 0 | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm |
| London | +8 | 9:00 am to 10:00 am | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Delhi | +12:30 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| Sydney | +17 | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 11:00 am |
Other cities in United States
We cover 415 cities in United States. These are the ones nearest to Santa Ana, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | State | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orange | California | 2:05 pm | UTC-7 |
| Garden Grove | California | 2:05 pm | UTC-7 |
| Irvine | California | 2:05 pm | UTC-7 |
| Anaheim | California | 2:05 pm | UTC-7 |
| Costa Mesa | California | 2:05 pm | UTC-7 |
| Fullerton | California | 2:05 pm | UTC-7 |
| Huntington Beach | California | 2:05 pm | UTC-7 |
| Norwalk | California | 2:05 pm | UTC-7 |
| Long Beach | California | 2:05 pm | UTC-7 |
| Corona | California | 2:05 pm | UTC-7 |
| Downey | California | 2:05 pm | UTC-7 |
| Pomona | California | 2:05 pm | UTC-7 |
| West Covina | California | 2:05 pm | UTC-7 |
| El Monte | California | 2:05 pm | UTC-7 |
| Ontario | California | 2:05 pm | UTC-7 |
| East Los Angeles | California | 2:05 pm | UTC-7 |
Cities on America/Los_Angeles time
113 of our cities keep America/Los_Angeles, so every one of them reads 2:05 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Santa Ana. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Santa Ana |
|---|---|---|
| Orange, California | 2:05 pm | 5 km |
| Garden Grove, California | 2:05 pm | 8 km |
| Irvine, California | 2:05 pm | 8 km |
| Anaheim, California | 2:05 pm | 11 km |
| Costa Mesa, California | 2:05 pm | 13 km |
| Fullerton, California | 2:05 pm | 15 km |
| Huntington Beach, California | 2:05 pm | 15 km |
| Norwalk, California | 2:05 pm | 26 km |
| Long Beach, California | 2:05 pm | 30 km |
| Corona, California | 2:05 pm | 31 km |
| Downey, California | 2:05 pm | 33 km |
| Pomona, California | 2:05 pm | 36 km |
| West Covina, California | 2:05 pm | 37 km |
| El Monte, California | 2:05 pm | 39 km |
| Ontario, California | 2:05 pm | 41 km |
| East Los Angeles, California | 2:05 pm | 42 km |
Moon phase over Santa Ana tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 15.7 days into its cycle and about 99% lit. The next full moon falls on October 25, 2026 at 9:11 pm Los Angeles time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 8:49 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Santa Ana clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Santa Ana
The next change is on Sunday, November 1, 2026, 35 days from now, when the clocks in Santa Ana go back 1 hour at 1:59 am and the offset moves from UTC-7 to UTC-8.
Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Santa Ana shifts by an hour on that date unless the other side moves the same weekend, and every offset printed on this page is the offset for today rather than a fixed property of the city.
How far Santa Ana is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Santa Ana is Orange, California at 5 km, and the furthest is Vacoas, Mauritius at 18,451 km, which is 92% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orange, California | 5 | 3 | north | 2:05 pm |
| Garden Grove, California | 8 | 5 | north west | 2:05 pm |
| Irvine, California | 8 | 5 | south east | 2:05 pm |
| Anaheim, California | 11 | 7 | north west | 2:05 pm |
| Costa Mesa, California | 13 | 8 | south | 2:05 pm |
| Fullerton, California | 15 | 9 | north | 2:05 pm |
| Huntington Beach, California | 15 | 10 | south west | 2:05 pm |
| Norwalk, California | 26 | 16 | north west | 2:05 pm |
| Long Beach, California | 30 | 19 | west | 2:05 pm |
| Corona, California | 31 | 19 | north east | 2:05 pm |
The antipode of Santa Ana
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Santa Ana, California and you come out at 33.75 degrees south, 62.13 degrees east. That point is in the Indian Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Vacoas, Mauritius, 1,564 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 1:05 am on Sunday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 33.75 degrees north becomes 33.75 degrees south, and 117.87 degrees west becomes 62.13 degrees east. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Santa Ana is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC+5, roughly twelve hours from Santa Ana, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Santa Ana
Today the sun rises in Santa Ana at 6:42 am and sets at 6:42 pm, giving 12 hours of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Santa Ana.
Weather in Santa Ana right now
19°C (66°F), fog
| Conditions | Fog |
|---|---|
| Wind | 9 km/h (5 mph) from the W, a light breeze |
| Humidity | 96% |
| Cloud cover | 100% |
| Pressure | 1012 hPa |
| Rain in the next hour | none forecast |
Reading taken 6 hours ago, local time 8 AM in Santa Ana.
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Hourly forecast for Santa Ana
The next 21 hours, in Santa Ana local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 2 PM 29°C 84°F Clear sky 12 km/h
- 3 PM 29°C 83°F Fair 14 km/h
- 4 PM 28°C 82°F Partly cloudy 16 km/h
- 5 PM 27°C 81°F Fair 16 km/h
- 6 PM 26°C 79°F Partly cloudy 15 km/h
- 7 PM 25°C 77°F Partly cloudy 11 km/h
- 8 PM 24°C 76°F Partly cloudy 8 km/h
- 9 PM 24°C 74°F Partly cloudy 6 km/h
- 10 PM 23°C 74°F Partly cloudy 9 km/h
- 11 PM 23°C 73°F Partly cloudy 8 km/h
- 12 AM 22°C 72°F Cloudy 8 km/h
- 1 AM 22°C 72°F Cloudy 9 km/h
- 2 AM 22°C 72°F Cloudy 10 km/h
- 3 AM 22°C 71°F Cloudy 10 km/h
- 4 AM 22°C 71°F Rain 10 km/h 0.5 mm
- 5 AM 22°C 71°F Cloudy 10 km/h
- 6 AM 21°C 70°F Cloudy 10 km/h
- 7 AM 21°C 70°F Cloudy 10 km/h
- 8 AM 22°C 71°F Cloudy 10 km/h
- 9 AM 23°C 73°F Cloudy 10 km/h
- 10 AM 25°C 77°F Partly cloudy 9 km/h
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Santa Ana
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 26 Sep | 29°C / 84°F | 19°C / 66°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Sun 27 Sep | 28°C / 83°F | 21°C / 70°F | Partly cloudy | 0.5 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 26°C / 78°F | 20°C / 68°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 28°C / 82°F | 17°C / 63°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 26°C / 79°F | 20°C / 68°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 27°C / 80°F | 19°C / 65°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 29°C / 84°F | 20°C / 68°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Santa Ana today
The sun is up in Santa Ana for 12 hours today, from 6:42 am to 6:42 pm. The moon sets in Santa Ana at 6:41 am and comes up again at 6:38 pm. The next phase is the last quarter on October 3, 2026. The moon is full, or as near to it as makes no difference, and the whole of the face turned towards us is lit.
| Sun | Time in Santa Ana |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:19 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:49 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:18 am |
| Sunrise | 6:42 am |
| Solar noon | 12:43 pm |
| Sunset | 6:42 pm |
| Civil dusk | 7:07 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 7:36 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 8:05 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Santa Ana | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:18 am to 6:27 am | 0h 10m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:27 am to 7:15 am | 0h 48m |
| Evening golden hour | 6:09 pm to 6:58 pm | 0h 48m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:58 pm to 7:07 pm | 0h 10m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Santa Ana |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:38 pm |
| Moonset | 6:41 am |
| Phase | waning gibbous, waning |
| Illumination | 100% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 15.6 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 379,100 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: Santa Ana and four other places
Every hour of Saturday, September 26, 2026 in Santa Ana, CA, read across 4 other places. Columns are Santa Ana local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
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| Santa Ana local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa AnaPDT UTC-7 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 | 1+1 | 2+1 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 | 1+1 | 2+1 | 3+1 | 4+1 | 5+1 | 6+1 | 7+1 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 0:30+1 | 1:30+1 | 2:30+1 | 3:30+1 | 4:30+1 | 5:30+1 | 6:30+1 | 7:30+1 | 8:30+1 | 9:30+1 | 10:30+1 | 11:30+1 |
| SingaporeSGT UTC+8 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 | 1+1 | 2+1 | 3+1 | 4+1 | 5+1 | 6+1 | 7+1 | 8+1 | 9+1 | 10+1 | 11+1 | 12+1 | 13+1 | 14+1 |
No hour on Saturday, September 26, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Santa Ana and Singapore are 15 hours apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 1:00 am in Santa Ana it is working hours in London, Delhi and Singapore, but outside them in Santa Ana and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Santa Ana
Seven days from September 26, 2026, computed for Santa Ana, CA at 33.75 degrees north, 117.87 degrees west, on the clock of America/Los_Angeles. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday September 26 | 5:19 am | 6:42 am | 12:43 pm | 4:08 pm | 6:42 pm | 8:00 pm |
| Sunday September 27 | 5:20 am | 6:43 am | 12:42 pm | 4:07 pm | 6:41 pm | 7:59 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 5:21 am | 6:44 am | 12:42 pm | 4:06 pm | 6:40 pm | 7:58 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 5:22 am | 6:45 am | 12:42 pm | 4:05 pm | 6:38 pm | 7:56 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 5:22 am | 6:45 am | 12:41 pm | 4:04 pm | 6:37 pm | 7:55 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 5:23 am | 6:46 am | 12:41 pm | 4:03 pm | 6:36 pm | 7:53 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 5:24 am | 6:47 am | 12:41 pm | 4:02 pm | 6:34 pm | 7:52 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Santa Ana, CA, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Santa Ana
From Santa Ana, CA the qibla is 24.3 degrees on a true compass, which is north-northeast, or 24.3 degrees east of due north. The Kaaba is 13,441 km away, 8,352 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Santa Ana, CA to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram. That reads as a surprise on a flat map, where Mecca sits well to the southeast. A flat map is not the Earth. The shortest path from Santa Ana to Mecca is a great circle that runs northeast over the Atlantic and Europe, and the qibla is the bearing of that path where you stand.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Santa Ana, CA before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Put a Santa Ana clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Santa Ana, CA, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads America/Los_Angeles from the time zone database, so it stays right when Santa Ana changes its clocks, and it shows PDT to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
The box needs 183 pixels of height for these settings, which is what the code above sets, and the numbers show at full size from 305 pixels of width up. Narrower than that they scale down rather than wrapping, and turning a line off makes the box shorter. The code updates with either.
Santa Ana time now: common questions
- What time is it in Santa Ana, California right now?
- 2:05 pm on Saturday September 26, 2026. Santa Ana runs on PDT, UTC-7.
- What time zone is Santa Ana in?
- America/Los_Angeles, currently PDT at UTC-7. 113 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Santa Ana?
- UTC-7 at this instant. It alternates between UTC-8 and UTC-7 across the year.
- Does Santa Ana observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is November 1, 2026, when the clocks go back.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Santa Ana of New York?
- Santa Ana is 3 hours behind of New York, where it is 5:05 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Santa Ana today?
- 6:42 pm, after a sunrise at 6:42 am and 12 hours of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Santa Ana?
- 33.75 degrees south, 62.13 degrees east, in the Indian Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Santa Ana from London?
- Between 9:00 am and 10:00 am in Santa Ana, which is 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm in London.
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