Santa Elena in numbers
- Coordinates
- 10.8938, -85.6968
- Region
- Guanacaste Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 206 km away
- Same name
- 736 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Santa Elena, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica
The current hour and minute in Santa Elena, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica are shown here, in the America/Costa_Rica zone (−6).
Santa Elena, Costa Rica
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in Santa Elena
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Santa Elena 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 5:12 AM – 5:47 PM
Weather in Santa Elena right now
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Santa Elena and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 51004
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 Santa Elena
- Santa Elena Santa Elena, Ecuador
- Santa Elena Entre Rios, Argentina
- Santa Elena Bicol Region, Philippines
- Santa Elena Cayo District, Belize
- Santa Elena Usulutan, El Salvador
Nearby places
- Hacienda Murcielago — 3.6 km
- Puerto Castilla — 4.6 km
- Cuajiniquil — 5.7 km
- Rabo de Mico — 6.1 km
- Brasilito — 10.2 km
- Bello Horizonte — 10.2 km
About the time in Santa Elena
Mail delivery in Santa Elena relies on 1 postal code.
Time in Santa Elena runs on America/Costa_Rica, which is UTC−6. Does daylight saving time apply here? No.
Sunrise time for Santa Elena today is 5:33 AM; sunset time is 5:26 PM. Daylight fills 11 h 53 min.
Same time, different place: Hacienda Murcielago and Puerto Castilla near Santa Elena.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone is assigned to Santa Elena?
- The time zone assigned to Santa Elena is America/Costa_Rica, with an offset of −6.
- Is the hour in Santa Elena changed for daylight saving at any time of year?
- No.
- What is the local sunset time in Santa Elena?
- Local sunset is 5:26 PM.