Current time in Santa Clara, Cuba right now
It is 4:48 am in Santa Clara, Cuba 🇨🇺 right now, on Thursday, November 5, 2026. The city keeps America/Havana, which is CST at UTC-5, so Santa Clara is 5 hours behind of UTC, where it is 9:48 am. The sun rose in Santa Clara at 6:26 am and sets at 5:40 pm, which is 11 hours 14 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Santa Clara right now?
The time in Santa Clara, Cuba is 4:48 am, 04:48 on a 24 hour clock, on Thursday November 5, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the America/Havana rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Santa Clara sits at 22.41 degrees north and 79.97 degrees west, inside the tropics, north of the equator and 2,492 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 75.0 degrees west, and the city itself is 5.0 degrees west of that line. Those 5.0 degrees are worth 19 minutes 52 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:03 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Santa Clara time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Santa Clara, Cuba is America/Havana. Right now it is running at UTC-5 and the abbreviation in force is CST. Santa Clara is on standard time at the moment, at UTC-5. It moves to UTC-4 for part of the year.
Daylight hours in Santa Clara today
The sun rose in Santa Clara at 6:26 am and sets at 5:40 pm, which is 11 hours 14 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Santa Clara, is at 12:03 pm, which is 3 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -15.83 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 51.8 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Santa Clara |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 6:26 am |
| Sunset | 5:40 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:03 pm |
| Day length | 11 hours 14 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 5:09 pm to 5:54 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 6:03 pm |
The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Santa Clara, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Santa Clara is on the map
The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.
An interactive map of Santa Clara. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Santa Clara on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Santa Clara and major cities
Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Santa Clara.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Santa Clara |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 1:48 am | -3 | 3 hours behind of Santa Clara |
| Chicago, Illinois | 3:48 am | -1 | 1 hour behind of Santa Clara |
| New York, New York | 4:48 am | 0 | same time as Santa Clara |
| Toronto, Canada | 4:48 am | 0 | same time as Santa Clara |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 6:48 am | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Santa Clara |
| London, United Kingdom | 9:48 am | +5 | 5 hours ahead of Santa Clara |
| Paris, France | 10:48 am | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Santa Clara |
| Berlin, Germany | 10:48 am | +6 | 6 hours ahead of Santa Clara |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 11:48 am | +7 | 7 hours ahead of Santa Clara |
| Moscow, Russia | 12:48 pm | +8 | 8 hours ahead of Santa Clara |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 1:48 pm | +9 | 9 hours ahead of Santa Clara |
| Delhi, India | 3:18 pm | +10:30 | 10 hours 30 minutes ahead of Santa Clara |
| Singapore, Singapore | 5:48 pm | +13 | 13 hours ahead of Santa Clara |
| Hong Kong, China | 5:48 pm | +13 | 13 hours ahead of Santa Clara |
| Tokyo, Japan | 6:48 pm | +14 | 14 hours ahead of Santa Clara |
| Sydney, Australia | 8:48 pm | +16 | 16 hours ahead of Santa Clara |
Best time to call Santa Clara
Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Santa Clara | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 0 | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 6:00 pm |
| Los Angeles | -3 | 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 3:00 pm |
| London | +5 | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
| Delhi | +10:30 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| Sydney | +16 | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 10:00 am |
Other cities in Cuba
We cover 31 cities in Cuba. These are the ones nearest to Santa Clara, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cienfuegos | Cienfuegos Province | 4:48 am | UTC-5 |
| Sancti Spiritus | Sancti Spiritus Province | 4:48 am | UTC-5 |
| Ciego de Avila | Ciego de Avila Province | 4:48 am | UTC-5 |
| Matanzas | Matanzas Province | 4:48 am | UTC-5 |
| Camagueey | Camaguey | 4:48 am | UTC-5 |
| Alamar | Havana | 4:48 am | UTC-5 |
| Guanabacoa | Havana | 4:48 am | UTC-5 |
| San Miguel del Padron | Havana | 4:48 am | UTC-5 |
| Mantilla | Havana | 4:48 am | UTC-5 |
| Ciudad Camilo Cienfuegos | Havana | 4:48 am | UTC-5 |
| Diez de Octubre | Havana | 4:48 am | UTC-5 |
| Arroyo Naranjo | Havana | 4:48 am | UTC-5 |
| Havana | Havana | 4:48 am | UTC-5 |
| Boyeros | Havana | 4:48 am | UTC-5 |
| Centro Habana | Havana | 4:48 am | UTC-5 |
| Fontanar | Havana | 4:48 am | UTC-5 |
Cities on America/Havana time
31 of our cities keep America/Havana, so every one of them reads 4:48 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Santa Clara. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Santa Clara |
|---|---|---|
| Cienfuegos, Cuba | 4:48 am | 57 km |
| Sancti Spiritus, Cuba | 4:48 am | 75 km |
| Ciego de Avila, Cuba | 4:48 am | 139 km |
| Matanzas, Cuba | 4:48 am | 180 km |
| Camagueey, Cuba | 4:48 am | 240 km |
| Alamar, Cuba | 4:48 am | 251 km |
| Guanabacoa, Cuba | 4:48 am | 252 km |
| San Miguel del Padron, Cuba | 4:48 am | 254 km |
| Mantilla, Cuba | 4:48 am | 254 km |
| Ciudad Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuba | 4:48 am | 256 km |
| Diez de Octubre, Cuba | 4:48 am | 257 km |
| Arroyo Naranjo, Cuba | 4:48 am | 257 km |
| Havana, Cuba | 4:48 am | 258 km |
| Boyeros, Cuba | 4:48 am | 259 km |
| Centro Habana, Cuba | 4:48 am | 259 km |
| Fontanar, Cuba | 4:48 am | 260 km |
Moon phase over Santa Clara tonight
The moon is a waning crescent tonight, 25.7 days into its cycle and about 15% lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 at 9:53 am Havana time, and the next new moon on November 9, 2026 at 2:01 am. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Santa Clara clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Santa Clara
The next change is on Sunday, March 14, 2027, 129 days from now, when the clocks in Santa Clara go forward 1 hour at 11:59 pm and the offset moves from UTC-5 to UTC-4.
Two things follow from that. Any standing call with Santa Clara shifts by an hour on that date unless the other side moves the same weekend, and every offset printed on this page is the offset for today rather than a fixed property of the city.
How far Santa Clara is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Santa Clara is Cienfuegos, Cuba at 57 km, and the furthest is Pelabuhanratu, Indonesia at 18,164 km, which is 91% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cienfuegos, Cuba | 57 | 36 | south west | 4:48 am |
| Sancti Spiritus, Cuba | 75 | 47 | south east | 4:48 am |
| Ciego de Avila, Cuba | 139 | 86 | south east | 4:48 am |
| Matanzas, Cuba | 180 | 112 | north west | 4:48 am |
| Camagueey, Cuba | 240 | 149 | south east | 4:48 am |
| Alamar, Cuba | 251 | 156 | west | 4:48 am |
| Guanabacoa, Cuba | 252 | 157 | west | 4:48 am |
| San Miguel del Padron, Cuba | 254 | 158 | west | 4:48 am |
| Mantilla, Cuba | 254 | 158 | west | 4:48 am |
| Ciudad Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuba | 256 | 159 | west | 4:48 am |
The antipode of Santa Clara
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Santa Clara, Cuba and you come out at 22.41 degrees south, 100.03 degrees east. That point is in the Indian Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Pelabuhanratu, Indonesia, 1,851 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 4:48 pm on Thursday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 22.41 degrees north becomes 22.41 degrees south, and 79.97 degrees west becomes 100.03 degrees east. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Santa Clara is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC+7, roughly twelve hours from Santa Clara, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Santa Clara
Today the sun rises in Santa Clara at 6:26 am and sets at 5:40 pm, giving 11 hours 14 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Santa Clara.
Sun and moon in Santa Clara today
The sun is up in Santa Clara for 11 hours 14 minutes today, from 6:26 am to 5:40 pm. The moon rises in Santa Clara at 3:07 am and sets at 3:19 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. It is 13% lit at the moment, a waning crescent, thinning by about 7.1 percentage points a day.
| Sun | Time in Santa Clara |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:10 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:36 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:03 am |
| Sunrise | 6:26 am |
| Solar noon | 12:03 pm |
| Sunset | 5:40 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:03 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:30 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 6:57 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Santa Clara | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:03 am to 6:12 am | 0h 09m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:12 am to 6:58 am | 0h 45m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:09 pm to 5:54 pm | 0h 45m |
| Evening blue hour | 5:54 pm to 6:03 pm | 0h 09m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Santa Clara |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 3:07 am |
| Moonset | 3:19 pm |
| Phase | waning crescent, waning |
| Illumination | 13% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 26.0 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 386,000 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: Santa Clara and four other places
Every hour of Thursday, November 5, 2026 in Santa Clara, Cuba, read across 4 other places. Columns are Santa Clara local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
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| Santa Clara local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa ClaraCST UTC-5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPST UTC-8 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| LondonGMT UTC+0 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 | 1+1 | 2+1 | 3+1 | 4+1 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 | 21:30 | 22:30 | 23:30 | 0:30+1 | 1:30+1 | 2:30+1 | 3:30+1 | 4:30+1 | 5:30+1 | 6:30+1 | 7:30+1 | 8:30+1 | 9:30+1 |
| SingaporeSGT UTC+8 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 0+1 | 1+1 | 2+1 | 3+1 | 4+1 | 5+1 | 6+1 | 7+1 | 8+1 | 9+1 | 10+1 | 11+1 | 12+1 |
No hour on Thursday, November 5, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Los Angeles and Singapore are 16 hours apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 2 of 5: from 12:00 am in Santa Clara it is working hours in Delhi and Singapore, but outside them in Santa Clara, Los Angeles and London. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Santa Clara
Seven days from November 5, 2026, computed for Santa Clara, Cuba at 22.41 degrees north, 79.97 degrees west, on the clock of America/Havana. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday November 5 | 5:10 am | 6:26 am | 12:03 pm | 3:16 pm | 5:40 pm | 6:52 pm |
| Friday November 6 | 5:10 am | 6:27 am | 12:03 pm | 3:16 pm | 5:40 pm | 6:52 pm |
| Saturday November 7 | 5:11 am | 6:28 am | 12:04 pm | 3:16 pm | 5:39 pm | 6:51 pm |
| Sunday November 8 | 5:11 am | 6:28 am | 12:04 pm | 3:16 pm | 5:39 pm | 6:51 pm |
| Monday November 9 | 5:12 am | 6:29 am | 12:04 pm | 3:15 pm | 5:38 pm | 6:51 pm |
| Tuesday November 10 | 5:12 am | 6:29 am | 12:04 pm | 3:15 pm | 5:38 pm | 6:51 pm |
| Wednesday November 11 | 5:13 am | 6:30 am | 12:04 pm | 3:15 pm | 5:38 pm | 6:50 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Santa Clara, Cuba, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Santa Clara
From Santa Clara, Cuba the qibla is 57.5 degrees on a true compass, which is east-northeast, or 32.5 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 11,871 km away, 7,376 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Santa Clara, Cuba to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Santa Clara, Cuba before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Put a Santa Clara clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Santa Clara, Cuba, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads America/Havana from the time zone database, so it stays right when Santa Clara changes its clocks, and it shows CST to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
The box needs 183 pixels of height for these settings, which is what the code above sets, and the numbers show at full size from 305 pixels of width up. Narrower than that they scale down rather than wrapping, and turning a line off makes the box shorter. The code updates with either.
Santa Clara time now: common questions
- What time is it in Santa Clara, Cuba right now?
- 4:48 am on Thursday November 5, 2026. Santa Clara runs on CST, UTC-5.
- What time zone is Santa Clara in?
- America/Havana, currently CST at UTC-5. 31 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Santa Clara?
- UTC-5 at this instant. It alternates between UTC-5 and UTC-4 across the year.
- Does Santa Clara observe daylight saving time?
- Yes. The next change is March 14, 2027, when the clocks go forward.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Santa Clara of New York?
- Santa Clara is the same time of New York, where it is 4:48 am right now.
- What time does the sun set in Santa Clara today?
- 5:40 pm, after a sunrise at 6:26 am and 11 hours 14 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Santa Clara?
- 22.41 degrees south, 100.03 degrees east, in the Indian Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Santa Clara from London?
- Between 9:00 am and 1:00 pm in Santa Clara, which is 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm in London.
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