El Ceiba in numbers
- Coordinates
- 9.8196, -83.7002
- Region
- Cartago Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 43 km away
What time is it in El Ceiba, Cartago Province, Costa Rica
Below is the local time in El Ceiba, Cartago Province, Costa Rica, kept in the America/Costa_Rica zone (−6).
El Ceiba, Costa Rica
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in El Ceiba
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
El Ceiba keeps America/Costa_Rica clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:24 AM Solar noon 11:21 AM Sunset 5:19 PM Daylight 11 h 54 min Night 12 h 06 min Civil twilight 5:03 AM – 5:40 PM
Weather in El Ceiba right now
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El Ceiba and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 30402 Tucurrique — 4.6 km away
- 30403 Pejibaye — 5.1 km away
- 30501 Turrialba — 7.7 km away
- 30502 La Suiza — 9.8 km away
- 30204 Cachí — 10.3 km away
- 30401 Juan Viñas — 10.4 km away
- 30511 La Isabel — 12.9 km away
- 30202 Santiago — 13.1 km away
- 30506 Pavones — 13.9 km away
- 30602 Cervantes — 14.0 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 Cartago Province
- San Francisco 55 923
- Paraiso 39 702
- Turrialba 28 955
- San Miguel 28 827
- Cartago 26 594
- San Juan 26 047
Nearby places
Local time details for El Ceiba
Neighbouring Alto Campos and Pejibaye sit in the same time as El Ceiba.
Coverage of El Ceiba by postal code amounts to 10 entries.
El Ceiba sits under America/Costa_Rica, which puts local clocks at UTC−6. Daylight saving in use: No.
Sunrise falls at 5:24 AM today in El Ceiba, with the sun setting at 5:19 PM. That leaves 11 h 54 min of light.
Questions and answers
- What time zone includes El Ceiba?
- The time zone that includes El Ceiba is America/Costa_Rica, with an offset of −6.
- Does El Ceiba move its clocks forward at any time?
- No.
- What are the sunrise and sunset times in El Ceiba?
- Sunrise 5:24 AM, sunset 5:19 PM.