El Principal in numbers
- Coordinates
- -33.7213, -70.5513
- Region
- Santiago Metropolitan
- Country
- Chile, South America
- Capital
- Santiago — 31 km away
- Same name
- 1 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Principal, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile
The reading below is the local time in El Principal, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile, taken from the America/Santiago zone (−3).
El Principal, Chile
Thursday, 5 November 2026
UTC−3 · America/Santiago
Local time in El Principal
UTC−3 · daylight saving time is active
El Principal keeps America/Santiago clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:39 AM Solar noon 1:27 PM Sunset 8:14 PM Daylight 13 h 35 min Night 10 h 25 min Civil twilight 6:13 AM – 8:41 PM
Weather in El Principal right now
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El Principal and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 9480000 Pirque — 4.1 km away
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 Santiago Metropolitan
- Santiago 4 837 295
- Puente Alto 568 106
- Maipu 503 635
- Nunoa 255 823
- San Bernardo 249 858
- Penalolen 241 599
Other places named El Principal
- El Principal Chihuahua, Mexico
Same time zone — America/Santiago
- Santiago Chile
Nearby places
- La Retamilla — 4.1 km
- Provincia De Cordillera — 4.7 km
- Santa Rita de Pirque — 5.9 km
- Lo Arcaya — 6.2 km
- Pirque — 9.7 km
- El Arrayan — 10.7 km
About the time in El Principal
The same local time applies in El Principal, La Retamilla and Provincia De Cordillera.
Postal coverage of El Principal comes to 1 codes.
El Principal keeps time under America/Santiago. That places it at UTC−3, with daylight saving time Yes.
Today the sun comes up at 6:39 AM in El Principal and goes down at 8:14 PM. Daylight measures 13 h 35 min.
Questions and answers
- What time zone label is used for El Principal?
- The time zone label used for El Principal is America/Santiago, with an offset of −3.
- Does daylight saving time apply in El Principal?
- Yes.
- I need the sunrise and sunset times for El Principal.
- They are 6:39 AM and 8:14 PM.