El Recreo in numbers
- Coordinates
- 6.1500, -73.6667
- Region
- Santander Department
- Country
- Colombia, South America
- Capital
- Bogotá — 177 km away
- Same name
- 210 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Recreo, Santander Department, Colombia
Current local time for El Recreo, Santander Department, Colombia is listed here, in the America/Bogota time zone (−5).
El Recreo, Colombia
Wednesday, 4 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/Bogota
Local time in El Recreo
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in El Recreo, Santander Department.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:43 AM Solar noon 11:39 AM Sunset 5:36 PM Daylight 11 h 53 min Night 12 h 07 min Civil twilight 5:21 AM – 5:58 PM
Weather in El Recreo right now
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El Recreo and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 685511 La Paz — 9.1 km away
- 685517 La Paz — 9.1 km away
- 685518 La Paz — 9.1 km away
- 685551 Chipata — 10.3 km away
- 685557 Chipata — 10.3 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 Santander Department
- Bucaramanga 581 130
- Floridablanca 267 591
- Barrancabermeja 191 403
- Piedecuesta 163 362
- Giron 108 466
- Cimitarra 50 892
Other places named El Recreo
- El Recreo Tabasco, Mexico
- El Recreo Michoacán, Mexico
- El Recreo Sinaloa, Mexico
- El Recreo Chiapas, Mexico
- El Recreo Veracruz, Mexico
Same time zone — America/Bogota
- Bogota Colombia
- Cali Colombia
- Medellin Colombia
- Barranquilla Colombia
- Kennedy Colombia
- Cartagena Colombia
Nearby places
- Lagunita — 17.4 km
- El Porvenir — 18.0 km
- Laguneta Baja — 18.6 km
- Los Guayabos — 18.9 km
- La Alegría — 19.2 km
- El Porvenir — 19.2 km
About the time in El Recreo
El Recreo runs on America/Bogota, which sits UTC−5 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: No.
Today the sun rises over El Recreo at 5:43 AM and sets at 5:36 PM. That is 11 h 53 min of daylight in all.
The same hours are kept in El Recreo and in nearby Lagunita and El Porvenir.
5 postal codes cover the territory of El Recreo.
Questions and answers
- Can you tell me the time zone for El Recreo?
- El Recreo is in America/Bogota, with an offset of −5.
- Does daylight saving time apply in El Recreo?
- No.
- Looking for sunrise and sunset in El Recreo — what are they?
- Sunrise at 5:43 AM, sunset at 5:36 PM.