Current time in San Francisco

Local time in San Francisco

The time in San Francisco is 6 hours behind UTC and 1 hour behind Columbus. The timezone in San Francisco is Central Standard Time (CST). San Francisco is not using Daylight Saving Time (DST) but used to in the past. The last DST transition was in 1992.

Details for the time in San Francisco

Current time	5:10 a.m.
Time zone	Central Standard Time (CST)
IANA time zone	America/Costa_Rica
Your time difference	1 hour behind Columbus
UTC time difference	UTC-6 6 hours behind UTC

San Francisco Daylight Saving Time (DST)