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
This page displays how late it is in El Ceiba, Cartago Province, Costa Rica, in the America/Costa_Rica time zone (−6).
El Ceiba, Costa Rica
Friday, 4 September 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in El Ceiba
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
El Ceiba keeps America/Costa_Rica time.
The sun today
Sunrise 05:27 Solar noon 11:35 Sunset 17:44 Daylight 12 h 17 min Night 11 h 43 min Civil twilight 05:06 – 18:05
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
El Ceiba sits under America/Costa_Rica, which puts local clocks at UTC−6. Daylight saving in use: No.
Morning light reaches El Ceiba at 05:27, and the sun sets at 17:44. Daylight lasts a total of 12 h 17 min.
The same local time applies in El Ceiba, Pejibaye and El Gato.
Postal codes assigned across El Ceiba total 10.
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 05:27, sunset 17:44.