Local time in Costa Rica
Republic of Costa Rica
Current local time in Costa Rica (CST (UTC-6)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — San Jose
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Differences are relative to San Jose, Costa Rica, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Costa Rica
- Standard label
- CST (UTC-6)
- Standard offset (San Jose)
- UTC−6
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- San Jose
- IANA zones
- America/Costa_Rica
Costa Rica uses CST (UTC-6) as its standard time. Clocks stay on the same offset all year round — daylight saving time is not observed. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in Costa Rica.
Sunrise and sunset in San Jose
At 9.9° north, San Jose gets 12 h 42 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 11 h 33 min around the December solstice — a difference of 1 h 10 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 05:59 | 11:48 | 17:37 | 11 h 38 min |
| 21 February | 05:55 | 11:51 | 17:47 | 11 h 52 min |
| 21 March | 05:41 | 11:44 | 17:48 | 12 h 07 min |
| 21 April | 05:24 | 11:36 | 17:48 | 12 h 24 min |
| 21 May | 05:15 | 11:34 | 17:52 | 12 h 37 min |
| 21 June | 05:18 | 11:39 | 18:00 | 12 h 42 min |
| 21 July | 05:25 | 11:43 | 18:02 | 12 h 37 min |
| 21 August | 05:28 | 11:40 | 17:53 | 12 h 24 min |
| 21 September | 05:26 | 11:30 | 17:34 | 12 h 08 min |
| 21 October | 05:26 | 11:22 | 17:17 | 11 h 52 min |
| 21 November | 05:34 | 11:23 | 17:12 | 11 h 38 min |
| 21 December | 05:49 | 11:35 | 17:21 | 11 h 33 min |
Calculated for San Jose (9.93°, -84.08°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in Costa Rica
Costa Rica does not change its clocks: it stays on CST (UTC-6) all year in 2026 and 2027.
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.