Santa Cruz in numbers
- Coordinates
- 26.3545, -98.7684
- Elevation
- 49 m above sea level
- Population
- 54
- Region
- Texas
- Country
- United States, North America
- Capital
- Washington, D.C. — 2457 km away
- Same name
- 1208 more places in the world share this name
Learn the current time in Santa Cruz, Texas, United States, a place in the America/Chicago time zone (−6).
Santa Cruz, United States
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Chicago
Local time in Santa Cruz
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Santa Cruz, Texas.
Sunrise 6:50 AM Solar noon 12:20 PM Sunset 5:50 PM Daylight 11 h 00 min Night 13 h 00 min Civil twilight 6:26 AM – 6:14 PM
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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.
Santa Cruz operates with 7 postal codes.
Time in Santa Cruz runs on America/Chicago, which is UTC−6. Does daylight saving time apply here? No.
For Santa Cruz today, sunrise is 6:50 AM and sunset is 5:50 PM. Daylight lasts 11 h 00 min.
Neighbouring Santa Rosa Colonia and El Chaparral Number 1 Colonia keep the same hours as Santa Cruz.