Time in San Francisco, United States

Time zone: PDT (UTC/GMT -07:00) — America/Los_Angeles

San Francisco keeps PDT (7 hours behind UTC, UTC-07:00). Its database zone is America/Los_Angeles — worth knowing if you are scheduling anything that has to survive a daylight saving change.

Daylight saving applies here. Clocks next move back 1 hour on Sunday, 01 November 2026, putting San Francisco on PST and changing its gap to every other zone listed below.

Across United States there are 10 distinct time zones among these 419 cities, so "local time" there depends entirely on which city you mean.

San Francisco has roughly 864,816 residents and ranks 10th by population among the United States cities on this site.

Current gap between San Francisco and cities people most often need to coordinate with. These figures already account for daylight saving where it applies.

Overlap of a normal working day, shown in San Francisco time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.

No shared working window exists with London, Paris, Dubai or Mumbai, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.

No difference at all from San Francisco: the cities below share the America/Los_Angeles zone.

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