San Francisco, United States
Current time in United States
Time zone: PDT (UTC/GMT -07:00) — America/Los_Angeles
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -15 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT -7 ) San Francisco, United States |
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What time zone is San Francisco in?
If you need the offset: San Francisco is on PDT, 7 hours behind UTC, i.e. UTC-07:00. The matching IANA zone is America/Los_Angeles.
San Francisco observes daylight saving. The next change lands on Sunday, 01 November 2026, when 1 hour is added or removed and the abbreviation becomes PST.
United States is not on a single clock: the 419 cities listed here fall across 10 time zones, so times elsewhere in the country will not match San Francisco.
Population: about 864,816 — 11th largest of the 212 United States cities indexed here.
Time difference between San Francisco and other cities
How San Francisco lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | San Francisco is 3 hours behind |
| London | UTC+01:00 | San Francisco is 8 hours behind |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | San Francisco is 9 hours behind |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | San Francisco is 11 hours behind |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | San Francisco is 12 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | San Francisco is 15 hours behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | San Francisco is 16 hours behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | San Francisco is 17 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | San Francisco is 4 hours behind |
Best time to call San Francisco
Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in San Francisco local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.
| New York | 09:00–14:00 in San Francisco | 5 hours overlap |
| Sao Paulo | 09:00–13:00 in San Francisco | 4 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with London, Paris, Dubai or Mumbai, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
Sharing San Francisco's time zone
No difference at all from San Francisco: the cities below share the America/Los_Angeles zone.
Los Angeles San Jose San Francisco Seattle Las Vegas Sacramento Bakersfield Anaheim
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