Santa Marta in numbers
- Coordinates
- 9.9752, -85.6665
- Region
- Guanacaste Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 180 km away
- Same name
- 188 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Santa Marta, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica
This page keeps the current time in Santa Marta, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, according to the America/Costa_Rica zone (−6).
Santa Marta, Costa Rica
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in Santa Marta
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Santa Marta 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 – 5:48 PM
Weather in Santa Marta right now
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Santa Marta and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 50206 Nosara — 4.5 km away
- 50306 Cuajiniquil — 11.2 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 Santa Marta
- Santa Marta Magdalena Department, Colombia
- Santa Marta Extremadura, Spain
- Santa Marta Chiriquí Province, Panama
- Santa Marta Los Santos Province, Panama
- Santa Marta Liguria, Italy
Nearby places
- Bijagua — 3.1 km
- Quebrada Zapote — 4.3 km
- Nosara — 4.5 km
- Ostional — 4.6 km
- Esperanza Sur — 4.7 km
- Quebrada Seca — 5.4 km
About the time in Santa Marta
Santa Marta shares its time with neighbouring Bijagua and Quebrada Zapote.
Postal codes assigned across Santa Marta total 2.
Santa Marta works to America/Costa_Rica time, set at UTC−6. Daylight saving time applies: No.
Sunrise today in Santa Marta lands at 5:32 AM; sunset lands at 5:26 PM. That is 11 h 54 min of light.
Questions and answers
- What time zone does local time in Santa Marta follow?
- Local time in Santa Marta follows America/Costa_Rica, with an offset of −6.
- Does Santa Marta observe daylight saving time?
- No.
- What hour brings sunset in Santa Marta?
- The hour is 5:26 PM.