Santa Marta in numbers
- Coordinates
- 11.3350, -72.2364
- Region
- La Guajira Department
- Country
- Colombia, South America
- Capital
- Bogotá — 775 km away
- Same name
- 188 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Santa Marta, La Guajira Department, Colombia
The clock above shows the current local time in Santa Marta, La Guajira Department, Colombia, which uses America/Bogota (−5).
Santa Marta, Colombia
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/Bogota
Local time in Santa Marta
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Santa Marta, La Guajira Department.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:44 AM Solar noon 11:34 AM Sunset 5:24 PM Daylight 11 h 39 min Night 12 h 21 min Civil twilight 5:22 AM – 5:46 PM
Weather in Santa Marta right now
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Santa Marta and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 470001
- 470002
- 470003
- 470004
- 470005
- 470006
- 470007
- 470008
- 470009
- 470017
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 La Guajira Department
Other places named Santa Marta
- Santa Marta Magdalena Department, Colombia
- Santa Marta Extremadura, Spain
- Santa Marta Chiriquí Province, Panama
- Santa Marta Los Santos Province, Panama
- Santa Marta Liguria, Italy
Same time zone — America/Bogota
- Bogota Colombia
- Cali Colombia
- Medellin Colombia
- Barranquilla Colombia
- Kennedy Colombia
- Cartagena Colombia
Nearby places
- Maracaibito — 2.7 km
- Maicao — 4.8 km
- La Esperanza — 6.8 km
- Huaittapa — 7.4 km
- Guasimalito — 7.5 km
- Causarijuno — 7.8 km
Time and daylight in Santa Marta
Sunrise at Santa Marta today happens at 5:44 AM, sunset at 5:24 PM. The two are 11 h 39 min apart.
Time runs the same in Santa Marta and in nearby Maracaibito and Maicao.
Coverage of Santa Marta by postal code amounts to 10 entries.
Local clocks in Santa Marta answer to America/Bogota, set UTC−5 from UTC. Daylight saving time: No.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone should I use for Santa Marta?
- Use America/Bogota for Santa Marta; its offset is −5.
- Is daylight saving time part of the local schedule in Santa Marta?
- Daylight saving time in Santa Marta: No.
- Sunset in Santa Marta is at what time?
- At 5:24 PM.