El Progreso in numbers
- Coordinates
- 10.5519, -84.0050
- Region
- Heredia Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 58 km away
- Same name
- 347 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Progreso, Heredia Province, Costa Rica
The reading below is the local time in El Progreso, Heredia Province, Costa Rica, taken from the America/Costa_Rica zone (−6).
El Progreso, Costa Rica
Monday, 2 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in El Progreso
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in El Progreso, Heredia Province.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:28 AM Solar noon 11:21 AM Sunset 5:13 PM Daylight 11 h 44 min Night 12 h 16 min Civil twilight 5:07 AM – 5:35 PM
Weather in El Progreso right now
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El Progreso and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 41001 Puerto Viejo — 10.1 km away
- 41002 La Virgen — 15.8 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 Heredia Province
- San Jose 335 007
- San Francisco 55 923
- San Vicente 34 447
- San Miguel 28 827
- San Pedro 27 477
- San Juan 26 047
Other places named El Progreso
- El Progreso Yoro Department, Honduras
- El Progreso Jutiapa, Guatemala
- El Progreso Panamá, Panama
- El Progreso Chiapas, Mexico
- El Progreso Chiapas, Mexico
Nearby places
About the time in El Progreso
Sun-up in El Progreso is 5:28 AM today and sun-down is 5:13 PM. That gap holds 11 h 44 min of daylight.
Sarapiqui and Coyol are close to El Progreso and observe the same time.
Postal designations for El Progreso total 2.
El Progreso reads its time from America/Costa_Rica, placed at UTC−6. Whether daylight saving time is observed: No.
Questions and answers
- What zone is used to calculate the time in El Progreso?
- The time in El Progreso is calculated using America/Costa_Rica, with an offset of −6.
- Does the time in El Progreso shift by an hour at any point in the year?
- No.
- Looking for sunrise and sunset in El Progreso — what are they?
- Sunrise at 5:28 AM, sunset at 5:13 PM.