La Penca in numbers
- Coordinates
- 10.3884, -85.5961
- Region
- Guanacaste Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 176 km away
- Same name
- 5 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in La Penca, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica
Read off the current local time in La Penca, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, which belongs to the America/Costa_Rica zone (−6).
La Penca, Costa Rica
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in La Penca
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in La Penca.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:32 AM Solar noon 11:29 AM Sunset 5:26 PM Daylight 11 h 54 min Night 12 h 06 min Civil twilight 5:11 AM – 5:47 PM
Weather in La Penca right now
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La Penca and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 50504 Belén — 1.1 km away
- 50305 Cartagena — 9.2 km away
- 50307 Diriá — 14.3 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 Guanacaste Province
Other places named La Penca
- La Penca Cordoba, Argentina
- La Penca Cordoba, Argentina
- La Penca Michoacán, Mexico
- La Penca Cajamarca Department, Peru
- La Penca Monte Plata Province, Dominican Republic
Nearby places
- Limón — 11.1 km
- Campero — 11.8 km
- Puente Negro — 13.2 km
- Chircó — 13.6 km
- Ramos — 13.7 km
- Los Ángeles — 13.8 km
Local time details for La Penca
Limón and Campero are neighbours of La Penca on the same clock.
3 postal codes have been allocated to La Penca.
Local clocks in La Penca answer to America/Costa_Rica, set UTC−6 from UTC. Daylight saving time: No.
Sunrise time for La Penca today is 5:32 AM; sunset time is 5:26 PM. Daylight fills 11 h 54 min.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone is used in La Penca?
- The time zone used in La Penca is America/Costa_Rica, with an offset of −6.
- Does La Penca take part in daylight saving time?
- Daylight saving time in La Penca: No.
- Sunset in La Penca is at what time?
- At 5:26 PM.