Nieves in numbers
- Coordinates
- 10.6020, -84.5142
- Region
- Alajuela Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 83 km away
- Same name
- 16 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Nieves, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica
Find the present-moment local time in Nieves, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica, which uses America/Costa_Rica (−6).
Nieves, Costa Rica
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in Nieves
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Nieves.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:28 AM Solar noon 11:25 AM Sunset 5:21 PM Daylight 11 h 53 min Night 12 h 07 min Civil twilight 5:07 AM – 5:43 PM
Weather in Nieves right now
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Nieves and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 21012 Monterrey — 13.6 km away
- 21404 San Jorge — 16.7 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 Alajuela Province
- San Jose 335 007
- Alajuela 47 494
- San Vicente 34 447
- San José 31 430
- San Miguel 28 827
- Quesada 27 310
Other places named Nieves
- Nieves Central Luzon, Philippines
- Nieves Zacatecas, Mexico
- Nieves Michoacán, Mexico
- Nieves Cajamarca Department, Peru
- Nieves La Paz Department, Bolivia
Nearby places
- San José — 11.7 km
- San Cristobal — 12.2 km
- Estero — 13.2 km
- San Jorge — 14.5 km
- San Isidro — 15.1 km
- Kopper — 15.4 km
Nieves: clock, sun and surroundings
The time zone used in Nieves is America/Costa_Rica, set at UTC−6. Whether the clocks shift for daylight saving: No.
Morning light reaches Nieves at 5:28 AM, and the sun sets at 5:21 PM. Daylight lasts a total of 11 h 53 min.
The same local time applies in Nieves, San José and San Cristobal.
Locations in Nieves are covered by 2 postal codes.
Questions and answers
- Is America/Costa_Rica the time zone for Nieves?
- Yes, America/Costa_Rica is the time zone for Nieves, with an offset of −6.
- Is the offset in Nieves changed for daylight saving?
- No.
- Please give the sunset time for Nieves.
- The sun sets at 5:21 PM.