El Cacao in numbers
- Coordinates
- 10.7000, -85.6500
- Region
- Guanacaste Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 193 km away
- Same name
- 104 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Cacao, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica
On this page you will find the exact local time in El Cacao, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, in the America/Costa_Rica time zone (−6).
El Cacao, Costa Rica
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in El Cacao
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
El Cacao keeps America/Costa_Rica clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:33 AM Solar noon 11:29 AM Sunset 5:26 PM Daylight 11 h 53 min Night 12 h 07 min Civil twilight 5:11 AM – 5:47 PM
Weather in El Cacao right now
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El Cacao and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 50104 Nacascolo — 6.0 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 Guanacaste Province
Other places named El Cacao
- El Cacao San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic
- El Cacao Monseñor Nouel, Dominican Republic
- El Cacao Los Santos Province, Panama
- El Cacao Guerrero, Mexico
- El Cacao Veraguas Province, Panama
Nearby places
- Triunfo — 2.6 km
- Cabuyal — 2.8 km
- El Tigre — 4.1 km
- Trinidad — 4.3 km
- Culebra — 5.8 km
- Puerto Culebra — 6.7 km
El Cacao: clock, sun and surroundings
The sky over El Cacao lightens at 5:33 AM and the sun sets at 5:26 PM. Daylight runs for 11 h 53 min today.
El Cacao and nearby Triunfo and Cabuyal are never an hour apart.
Within El Cacao, postal codes number 1.
Local time in El Cacao is governed by America/Costa_Rica at UTC−6. Daylight saving observed: No.
Questions and answers
- Can El Cacao's time zone be given as America/Costa_Rica?
- Yes, El Cacao's time zone is America/Costa_Rica, with an offset of −6.
- Does El Cacao switch between standard time and daylight saving time?
- Daylight saving time in El Cacao: No.
- When is the sun up in El Cacao?
- The sun comes up at 5:33 AM.