San José in numbers
- Coordinates
- 10.4978, -84.5261
- Region
- Alajuela Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 75 km away
- Same name
- 2295 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in San José, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica
This page answers what time it is in San José, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica right now, in the America/Costa_Rica zone (−6).
San José, Costa Rica
Saturday, 17 October 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in San José
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in San José.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:28 AM Solar noon 11:24 AM Sunset 5:21 PM Daylight 11 h 53 min Night 12 h 07 min Civil twilight 5:07 AM – 5:42 PM
Weather in San José right now
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San José and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 20102
- 20303
- 20506
- 20603
- 40602
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 San José
- San Jose California, United States
- San Jose Heredia Province, Costa Rica
- San Jose San José, Costa Rica
- San Jose Alajuela Province, Costa Rica
- San Jose Mimaropa, Philippines
Nearby places
- La Vega — 8.4 km
- La Cruz — 10.0 km
- El Molino — 10.1 km
- Abanico — 10.3 km
- Platanal — 10.9 km
- Platanar — 10.9 km
Time and daylight in San José
Postal numbering in San José covers 5 codes.
Local clocks in San José follow the America/Costa_Rica zone, UTC−6. Do they shift for daylight saving? No.
For San José today, sunrise is 5:28 AM and sunset is 5:21 PM. Daylight lasts 11 h 53 min.
San José and nearby La Vega and La Cruz are never an hour apart.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone determines the local time in San José?
- Local time in San José is determined by America/Costa_Rica, with an offset of −6.
- Does the time in San José shift by an hour at any point in the year?
- No.
- What time will the sun rise in San José today?
- Today it rises at 5:28 AM.