El Calafate in numbers
- Coordinates
- -50.3408, -72.2768
- Population
- 22 844
- Region
- Santa Cruz
- Country
- Argentina, South America
- Capital
- Buenos Aires — 2080 km away
What time is it in El Calafate, Santa Cruz, Argentina
Learn the current time in El Calafate, Santa Cruz, Argentina, a place in the America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos time zone (−3).
El Calafate, Argentina
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC−3 · America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos
Local time in El Calafate
UTC−3 · no daylight saving time
El Calafate keeps America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:02 AM Solar noon 1:34 PM Sunset 9:06 PM Daylight 15 h 03 min Night 8 h 57 min Civil twilight 5:24 AM – 9:44 PM
Weather in El Calafate right now
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El Calafate and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 9201 EL CALAFATE
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Santa Cruz
- Rio Gallegos 95 796
- Caleta Olivia 56 310
- Pico Truncado 25 194
- Las Heras 24 728
- Puerto Deseado 16 747
- Comandante Luis Piedrabuena 9 278
Nearby places
- Hoya del Chenque — 8.5 km
- El Galpón del Glaciar — 18.0 km
- Charles Fuhr — 28.5 km
- Paso Biggieri — 28.7 km
- Río Mitre — 32.9 km
- Colonia Francisco Perito Moreno — 35.8 km
About the time in El Calafate
Clocks in Hoya del Chenque and El Galpón del Glaciar read the same as clocks in El Calafate.
Addresses in El Calafate fall under 1 postal code.
El Calafate observes America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos time, currently expressed as UTC−3. Daylight saving time here: No.
Sunrise reaches El Calafate at 6:02 AM, and the sun sets at 9:06 PM. Light lasts 15 h 03 min.
Questions and answers
- Which local time zone does El Calafate follow?
- El Calafate follows America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos, with an offset of −3.
- Does El Calafate observe daylight saving time?
- No.
- Please give the sunrise time for El Calafate.
- The sun rises at 6:02 AM.