Santa Cruz in numbers
- Coordinates
- -22.3191, -42.6742
- Region
- Rio de Janeiro
- Country
- Brazil, South America
- Capital
- Brasília — 910 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 out what time it is now in Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — the local clock runs on America/Sao_Paulo (−3).
Santa Cruz, Brazil
Sunday, 8 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 5:04 AM Solar noon 11:36 AM Sunset 6:07 PM Daylight 13 h 04 min Night 10 h 56 min Civil twilight 4:40 AM – 6:31 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
- Centenario — 0.5 km
- João Brande — 1.8 km
- Baixada de Salinas — 2.9 km
- Salinas — 3.6 km
- Boa Vista — 7.9 km
- Frade — 8.1 km
Santa Cruz: clock, sun and surroundings
The hours shown for Santa Cruz apply equally in Centenario and João Brande.
Santa Cruz is split into 3 postal code areas.
Santa Cruz tells time by America/Sao_Paulo, an offset of UTC−3. Clock shift for daylight saving: No.
Today's times for Santa Cruz: the sun is up at 5:04 AM and down at 6:07 PM. That means 13 h 04 min of daylight.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone is observed in Santa Cruz?
- Santa Cruz observes the America/Sao_Paulo time zone, with an offset of −3.
- Are daylight saving rules used in Santa Cruz?
- Daylight saving time in Santa Cruz: No.
- When is the sun up in Santa Cruz?
- The sun comes up at 5:04 AM.