Palo Alto in numbers
- Coordinates
- 9.9750, -83.6182
- Region
- Cartago Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 45 km away
- Same name
- 83 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Palo Alto, Cartago Province, Costa Rica
This page reports the local time in Palo Alto, Cartago Province, Costa Rica, set by the America/Costa_Rica time zone (−6).
Palo Alto, Costa Rica
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in Palo Alto
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Palo Alto keeps America/Costa_Rica clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:27 AM Solar noon 11:19 AM Sunset 5:12 PM Daylight 11 h 45 min Night 12 h 15 min Civil twilight 5:05 AM – 5:33 PM
Weather in Palo Alto right now
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Palo Alto and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 30503 Peralta — 1.0 km away
- 30510 Tres Equis — 5.4 km away
- 30505 Santa Teresita — 5.4 km away
- 30506 Pavones — 6.6 km away
- 30511 La Isabel — 7.0 km away
- 70303 Florida — 7.7 km away
- 30509 Santa Rosa — 11.0 km away
- 30501 Turrialba — 12.3 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
Other places named Palo Alto
- Palo Alto California, United States
- Palo Alto Aguascalientes, Mexico
- Palo Alto Querétaro, Mexico
- Palo Alto Querétaro, Mexico
- Palo Alto Pennsylvania, United States
Nearby places
- Carmen — 12.6 km
- Pueblo Nuevo — 12.7 km
- Piedra Grande — 13.4 km
- Canadá — 13.4 km
- Leona — 13.8 km
- La Suiza — 13.8 km
Palo Alto: clock, sun and surroundings
Anyone in Carmen or Pueblo Nuevo reads the same clock as Palo Alto.
Postal codes valid in Palo Alto number 8.
The zone that governs Palo Alto is America/Costa_Rica at UTC−6. Whether the clocks move seasonally: No.
Sunrise comes to Palo Alto at 5:27 AM and sunset at 5:12 PM today. Together that makes 11 h 45 min of light.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone governs time in Palo Alto?
- Time in Palo Alto follows the America/Costa_Rica time zone, with an offset of −6.
- Is a seasonal hour added to the clock in Palo Alto?
- No.
- When does light leave Palo Alto?
- Light leaves at 5:12 PM.