Santa Cruz in numbers
- Coordinates
- -28.7333, -50.2500
- Region
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Country
- Brazil, South America
- Capital
- Brasília — 1459 km away
- Same name
- 1208 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Santa Cruz, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Learn the current time in Santa Cruz, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, a place in the America/Sao_Paulo time zone (−3).
Santa Cruz, Brazil
Friday, 16 October 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 5:44 AM Solar noon 12:08 PM Sunset 6:31 PM Daylight 12 h 47 min Night 11 h 13 min Civil twilight 5:20 AM – 6:55 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 Grande do Sul
- Porto Alegre 1 488 252
- Caxias Do Sul 479 599
- Pelotas 336 150
- Canoas 328 291
- Santa Maria 271 735
- Gravatai 265 074
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
- Hortencio Dutra — 2.5 km
- Rincao Bela Vista — 3.1 km
- Rondinha — 5.2 km
- Capão do Tigre — 8.9 km
- Ausentes — 17.9 km
- Maximo — 17.9 km
Time and daylight in Santa Cruz
The area of Santa Cruz is divided into 3 postal codes.
Santa Cruz uses the America/Sao_Paulo time zone with a UTC−3 offset. Whether daylight saving time is used: No.
Sunrise time for Santa Cruz today is 5:44 AM; sunset time is 6:31 PM. Daylight fills 12 h 47 min.
Hortencio Dutra and Rincao Bela Vista are near Santa Cruz and do not differ from it in time.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is Santa Cruz in?
- Santa Cruz is in the America/Sao_Paulo time zone, with an offset of −3.
- Do clocks in Santa Cruz shift for daylight saving time?
- No.
- What is the sunrise time for Santa Cruz?
- 5:44 AM.