Current time in Santa Rosa, United States
The current local time in Santa Rosa is shown below. Santa Rosa observes PST in winter and PDT during daylight saving time.
What's the daylight saving status?
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- America/Los_Angeles
- Standard abbreviation
- PST
- DST abbreviation
- PDT
- Observes daylight saving
- Yes
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Santa Rosa?
Santa Rosa uses Pacific Time alongside the rest of California. The federal DST schedule applies. The Pacific Standard Time meridian at 120 degrees west passes through Sonoma County, placing wall time very close to mean solar noon in standard months. The city's coastal-influenced position 50 kilometres inland from the Pacific produces routine summer fog patterns that moderate evening temperatures. Vineyard scheduling in surrounding wine country runs independent of wall-clock time, with harvest hours dictated by ambient temperature and grape sugar measurements.
What are the working hours in Santa Rosa?
Wine production and tourism (over 400 wineries in Sonoma County), healthcare anchored by Sutter Health, and a substantial telecommunications sector centred on the Keysight Technologies campus anchor employment. Office hours run 09:00 to 17:30. Wildfire season from June through November produces routine air-quality scheduling adjustments and occasional precautionary evacuations. Harvest crush from August through October is the largest agricultural calendar event. The Sonoma County Fair in early August and the Wine Country Half Marathon are the largest local civic events.
Where is Santa Rosa?
Santa Rosa sits in Sonoma County in northern California's wine country, around 90 kilometres north of San Francisco. The city proper holds around 180,000 residents and Sonoma County roughly 490,000. The Russian River runs west of the city, draining the central Sonoma vineyards toward the Pacific coast around 40 kilometres west. The 2017 Tubbs Fire destroyed around 5 percent of the city's housing stock in the Coffey Park and Fountaingrove neighbourhoods; reconstruction has continued through the early 2020s. The Mayacamas Mountains rise to the east toward Napa Valley.