Santa Cruz in numbers
- Coordinates
- -21.7452, -42.1062
- Region
- Rio de Janeiro
- Country
- Brazil, South America
- Capital
- Brasília — 900 km away
- Same name
- 1208 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Find the present-moment local time in Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which uses America/Sao_Paulo (−3).
Santa Cruz, Brazil
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC−3 · America/Sao_Paulo
Local time in Santa Cruz
UTC−3 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Santa Cruz.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:02 AM Solar noon 11:33 AM Sunset 6:05 PM Daylight 13 h 03 min Night 10 h 57 min Civil twilight 4:38 AM – 6:29 PM
Weather in Santa Cruz right now
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Santa Cruz and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 56215-000
- 58824-000
- 59200-000
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Rio de Janeiro
- Rio de Janeiro 6 747 815
- Duque De Caxias 866 347
- Nova Iguacu 843 046
- Belford Roxo 518 384
- Niteroi 515 317
- Campos Dos Goytacazes 483 540
Other places named Santa Cruz
- Santa Cruz National Capital Region, Philippines
- Santa Cruz Central Luzon, Philippines
- Santa Cruz Calabarzon, Philippines
- Santa Cruz Calabarzon, Philippines
- Santa Cruz Central Luzon, Philippines
Same time zone — America/Sao_Paulo
- Sao Paulo Brazil
- Rio de Janeiro Brazil
- Belo Horizonte Brazil
- Brasilia Brazil
- Curitiba Brazil
- Goiania Brazil
Nearby places
- Japona — 2.8 km
- Vargem Alegre — 3.5 km
- Pouso Alto — 3.8 km
- Serra Vermelha — 3.8 km
- Serra Vermelha — 4.2 km
- Boa Esperança — 5.1 km
About the time in Santa Cruz
Anyone in Japona or Vargem Alegre reads the same clock as Santa Cruz.
3 postal codes are in use across Santa Cruz.
The offset in Santa Cruz is UTC−3, under the America/Sao_Paulo time zone. Daylight saving time: No.
Sunrise time for Santa Cruz today is 5:02 AM; sunset time is 6:05 PM. Daylight fills 13 h 03 min.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone applies to Santa Cruz?
- The time zone that applies to Santa Cruz is America/Sao_Paulo, with an offset of −3.
- Do people in Santa Cruz set their clocks forward in spring?
- Daylight saving in Santa Cruz: No.
- Both sunrise and sunset in Santa Cruz — what times?
- 5:02 AM and 6:05 PM.