Santa Elena in numbers
- Coordinates
- 9.9985, -84.1527
- Region
- Heredia Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 14 km away
- Same name
- 736 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Santa Elena, Heredia Province, Costa Rica
This page holds the current clock reading for Santa Elena, Heredia Province, Costa Rica, in the America/Costa_Rica time zone (−6).
Santa Elena, Costa Rica
Saturday, 17 October 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in Santa Elena
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Santa Elena, Heredia Province.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:26 AM Solar noon 11:23 AM Sunset 5:20 PM Daylight 11 h 54 min Night 12 h 06 min Civil twilight 5:05 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 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 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
- Chirraca — 20.9 km
- Máquina Vieja — 21.0 km
- Agua Blanca — 21.2 km
- Bajos de Praga — 21.2 km
- Tablazo — 21.4 km
- Tigre — 21.6 km
About the time in Santa Elena
Records show 1 postal code for Santa Elena.
The zone that governs Santa Elena is America/Costa_Rica at UTC−6. Whether the clocks move seasonally: No.
Santa Elena gets its sunrise at 5:26 AM and its sunset at 5:20 PM today. Daylight lasts a full 11 h 54 min.
The same hours are kept in Santa Elena and in nearby Chirraca and Máquina Vieja.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone covers Santa Elena?
- Santa Elena is covered by the America/Costa_Rica time zone, with an offset of −6.
- Is daylight saving time part of the local schedule in Santa Elena?
- Daylight saving time in Santa Elena: No.
- Please give the sunset time for Santa Elena.
- The sun sets at 5:20 PM.