Penca in numbers
- Coordinates
- 10.3898, -85.5967
- Region
- Guanacaste Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 176 km away
What time is it in Penca, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica
Find the present-moment local time in Penca, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, which uses America/Costa_Rica (−6).
Penca, Costa Rica
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in Penca
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Penca keeps America/Costa_Rica clock_time.
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 Penca right now
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Penca and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 50504 Belén — 1.0 km away
- 50305 Cartagena — 9.2 km away
- 50307 Diriá — 14.4 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
Nearby places
- Limón — 11.3 km
- Campero — 11.9 km
- Puente Negro — 13.3 km
- Chircó — 13.7 km
- Ramos — 13.8 km
- Los Ángeles — 14.0 km
Penca: clock, sun and surroundings
Penca operates with 3 postal codes.
Penca observes America/Costa_Rica time, currently expressed as UTC−6. Daylight saving time here: No.
The sun shows itself over Penca at 5:32 AM and sets at 5:26 PM today. That is 11 h 54 min of light.
The clock in nearby Limón and Campero follows Penca.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone designation is used for Penca?
- The designation used for Penca is America/Costa_Rica, with an offset of −6.
- Does Penca run on daylight saving time for part of the year?
- Daylight saving in Penca: No.
- When does light leave Penca?
- Light leaves at 5:26 PM.