El Recreo in numbers
- Coordinates
- 8.0236, -73.0092
- Country
- Colombia, South America
- Capital
- Bogotá — 398 km away
- Same name
- 210 more places in the world share this name
The time in El Recreo, Norte de Santander Department, Colombia at this very moment is shown below, in the America/Bogota zone (−5).
El Recreo, Colombia
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/Bogota
Local time in El Recreo
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in El Recreo, Norte de Santander Department.
Sunrise 5:43 AM Solar noon 11:37 AM Sunset 5:31 PM Daylight 11 h 47 min Night 12 h 13 min Civil twilight 5:22 AM – 5:53 PM
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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.
The local zone in El Recreo is America/Bogota, standing at UTC−5. Whether daylight saving applies: No.
Sun-up in El Recreo is 5:43 AM today and sun-down is 5:31 PM. That gap holds 11 h 47 min of daylight.
The same hours are kept in El Recreo and in nearby Departamento De Norte De Santander and Mesa Llana.
2 postal codes cover the territory of El Recreo.