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Time in San Mateo, United States
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San Mateo time zone facts
Next clock change: Sunday 1 November 2026, when San Mateo moves to UTC−8. Regions change on their own schedules, so the gap between San Mateo and cities elsewhere is not fixed — daylight saving explained covers the weeks it goes strange.
Best hours to reach San Mateo
Local times in San Mateo on the left, the caller’s own clock on the right. Computed from the working-hour overlap for today’s offsets.
About time in San Mateo
San Mateo keeps Pacific Daylight Time, UTC−7 from UTC at the moment. Clocks move twice a year, so the same wall-clock time is a different instant in summer and winter — this page reads the offset in force today rather than an average.
San Mateo shares the zone America/Los_Angeles with Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, so a time here is also the time there. One canonical page per zone keeps the difference honest: the settlement name changes, the clock does not.
Offsets and daylight saving rules come from the IANA time zone database — see IANA time zone notes for what that data does and does not promise about future dates.
San Mateo converted to other zones
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COMMON QUESTIONS
What time is it in San Mateo right now?
The clock at the top of this page reads the current time in San Mateo to the second. San Mateo is on Pacific Daylight Time, UTC−7 — the same clock as every other place in the zone America/Los_Angeles.
Does San Mateo observe daylight saving time?
Yes. San Mateo is on UTC−7 now and UTC−8 outside daylight saving. The next change is Sunday 1 November 2026, when clocks go back.
What time zone is San Mateo in?
San Mateo uses the IANA zone America/Los_Angeles, currently PDT (UTC−7). Abbreviations are for reading — the zone identifier is the unambiguous name, and it is what you should store in your own systems.
Which other places read the same time as San Mateo?
Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Seattle all sit in America/Los_Angeles, so they read exactly the same clock, daylight saving changes included.