Santa Elena in numbers
- Coordinates
- 10.0794, -85.6615
- Region
- Guanacaste Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 179 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 local time in Santa Elena, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica — time zone America/Costa_Rica (−6) — is shown right here.
Santa Elena, Costa Rica
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in Santa Elena
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Santa Elena.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:36 AM Solar noon 11:28 AM Sunset 5:19 PM Daylight 11 h 42 min Night 12 h 18 min Civil twilight 5:15 AM – 5:41 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
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- Santa Elena Bicol Region, Philippines
- Santa Elena Cayo District, Belize
- Santa Elena Usulutan, El Salvador
Nearby places
Santa Elena: clock, sun and surroundings
The register holds 1 postal code for Santa Elena.
The name of the time zone in Santa Elena is America/Costa_Rica, and it runs UTC−6. Daylight saving time: No.
The sun will rise at 5:36 AM and set at 5:19 PM in Santa Elena today. Daylight amounts to 11 h 42 min.
Time runs the same in Santa Elena and in nearby Unión and Fortuna.
Questions and answers
- What zone is used to calculate the time in Santa Elena?
- The time in Santa Elena is calculated using America/Costa_Rica, with an offset of −6.
- What time zone rules apply in Santa Elena — does the clock change for daylight saving time?
- Daylight saving time in Santa Elena: No.
- How early in the evening does the sun set in Santa Elena?
- It sets at 5:19 PM.