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.
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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.