El Macho in numbers
- Coordinates
- 10.7474, -85.0428
- Region
- Alajuela Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 137 km away
- Same name
- 35 more places in the world share this name
The local time in El Macho, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica — in the America/Costa_Rica time zone (−6) — is shown on this page.
El Macho, Costa Rica
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in El Macho
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
El Macho keeps America/Costa_Rica clock_time.
Sunrise 5:35 AM Solar noon 11:25 AM Sunset 5:16 PM Daylight 11 h 41 min Night 12 h 19 min Civil twilight 5:13 AM – 5:38 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.
Postal designations for El Macho total 3.
The time zone here in El Macho is America/Costa_Rica, offset UTC−6. Does daylight saving apply? No.
Morning light reaches El Macho at 5:35 AM, and the sun sets at 5:16 PM. Daylight lasts a total of 11 h 41 min.
Las Florecitas and Bijagua, both nearby, hold the same time as El Macho.