Santa Barbara in numbers
- Coordinates
- 34.4208, -119.6980
- Population
- 91 842
- Region
- California
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 3803 km away
- Same name
- 548 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Santa Barbara, California, United States
Learn the current time in Santa Barbara, California, United States, a place in the America/Los_Angeles time zone (−7).
Santa Barbara, United States
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−7 · America/Los_Angeles
Local time in Santa Barbara
UTC−7 · daylight saving time is active
What the clock shows right now in Santa Barbara.
The sun today
Sunrise 7:06 AM Solar noon 12:45 PM Sunset 6:25 PM Daylight 11 h 19 min Night 12 h 41 min Civil twilight 6:41 AM – 6:50 PM
Weather in Santa Barbara right now
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Santa Barbara and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 93101
- 93102
- 93103
- 93105
- 93106
- 93107
- 93108
- 93109
- 93110
- 93111
- 93120
- 93121
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 California
- Los Angeles 3 820 914
- San Diego 1 404 452
- San Jose 997 368
- San Francisco 827 526
- Fresno 542 107
- Sacramento 524 943
Other places named Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara Barinas, Venezuela
- Santa Bárbara Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Santa Barbara Bahia, Brazil
- Santa Barbara Suchitepeque, Guatemala
- Santa Barbara Ilocos, Philippines
Same time zone — America/Los_Angeles
- Los Angeles United States
- San Diego United States
- San Jose United States
- San Francisco United States
- Seattle United States
- Portland United States
Nearby places
- Mission Canyon — 3.6 km
- Mission — 4.4 km
- Irma — 5.1 km
- Montecito — 6.3 km
- Hope Ranch — 6.7 km
- El Sueno — 7.2 km
Time and daylight in Santa Barbara
The sun shows itself over Santa Barbara at 7:06 AM and sets at 6:25 PM today. That is 11 h 19 min of light.
For Mission Canyon and Mission near Santa Barbara, the clock reads the same.
12 codes are used to address mail in Santa Barbara.
Santa Barbara falls within America/Los_Angeles, which places it UTC−7 from UTC. Daylight saving observed: Yes.
Questions and answers
- What should I enter as the time zone for Santa Barbara?
- Enter America/Los_Angeles as the time zone for Santa Barbara; its offset is −7.
- Do I need to account for daylight saving time in Santa Barbara?
- Daylight saving time in Santa Barbara: Yes.
- What time will the sun rise in Santa Barbara today?
- Today it rises at 7:06 AM.