Caracol in numbers
- Coordinates
- 8.9979, -83.1738
- Region
- Puntarenas Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 148 km away
- Same name
- 56 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Caracol, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica
This page shows local time in Caracol, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica as of this moment, in the America/Costa_Rica zone (−6).
Caracol, Costa Rica
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in Caracol
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Caracol keeps America/Costa_Rica clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:22 AM Solar noon 11:19 AM Sunset 5:17 PM Daylight 11 h 55 min Night 12 h 05 min Civil twilight 5:00 AM – 5:38 PM
Weather in Caracol right now
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Caracol and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 60307 Chánguena — 11.8 km away
- 60303 Potrero Grande — 12.0 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 Caracol
- Caracol Piauí, Brazil
- Caracol Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
- Caracol Nord-Est, Haiti
- Caracol Ngöbe-Buglé Comarca, Panama
- Caracol Chiapas, Mexico
Nearby places
- Pastate — 7.4 km
- Laja — 7.4 km
- Guacimo — 8.9 km
- Quebrada Bonita — 9.1 km
- Bonga — 9.2 km
- Montelimar — 9.7 km
About the time in Caracol
Caracol keeps time under America/Costa_Rica. That places it at UTC−6, with daylight saving time No.
Sunlight reaches Caracol at 5:22 AM and fades after 5:17 PM today. The span is 11 h 55 min.
Same time, different place: Laja and Pastate near Caracol.
Postal codes assigned across Caracol total 2.
Questions and answers
- Which zone should be used to show the time in Caracol?
- Use America/Costa_Rica to show the time in Caracol; its offset is −6.
- Does the time in Caracol vary with the season?
- Daylight saving time in Caracol: No.
- How late does the sun set in Caracol?
- The last sunlight comes at 5:17 PM.