Balso in numbers
- Coordinates
- 9.8427, -85.1112
- Region
- Puntarenas Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 120 km away
- Same name
- 1 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Balso, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica
On this page you will find the exact local time in Balso, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica, in the America/Costa_Rica time zone (−6).
Balso, Costa Rica
Friday, 4 September 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in Balso
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Balso.
The sun today
Sunrise 05:32 Solar noon 11:41 Sunset 17:49 Daylight 12 h 17 min Night 11 h 43 min Civil twilight 05:11 – 18:10
Weather in Balso right now
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Balso and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 60104 Lepanto — 6.9 km away
- 60105 Paquera — 13.3 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 Puntarenas Province
- Puntarenas 35 650
- Chacarita 26 354
- Esparza 15 575
- Buenos Aires 11 680
- Quepos 7 810
- Corredor 7 084
Other places named Balso
- Balso North-West, Cameroon
Nearby places
- Balsa — 1.0 km
- Cerro Frio — 2.9 km
- Guadalupe — 3.1 km
- Alto Fresca — 3.4 km
- San Rafael — 3.6 km
- Piedades — 3.9 km
Balso: clock, sun and surroundings
Travelling from Balso to Bijagua or Tronco Negro does not change the hour.
The area of Balso is divided into 2 postal codes.
Balso observes America/Costa_Rica time, currently expressed as UTC−6. Daylight saving time here: No.
Sunrise today in Balso lands at 05:32; sunset lands at 17:49. That is 12 h 17 min of light.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is Balso in?
- Balso is in the America/Costa_Rica time zone, with an offset of −6.
- Does Balso follow daylight saving time?
- No.
- How late in the morning does the sun rise in Balso?
- It rises at 05:32.