El Alto in numbers
- Coordinates
- 8.7038, -83.1413
- Region
- Puntarenas Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 177 km away
- Same name
- 212 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Alto, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica
This page displays how late it is in El Alto, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica, in the America/Costa_Rica time zone (−6).
El Alto, Costa Rica
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in El Alto
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in El Alto.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:21 AM Solar noon 11:19 AM Sunset 5:17 PM Daylight 11 h 56 min Night 12 h 04 min Civil twilight 5:00 AM – 5:38 PM
Weather in El Alto right now
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El Alto and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 60701 Golfito — 6.7 km away
- 60703 Guaycará — 7.2 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 Puntarenas Province
- Puntarenas 35 650
- Chacarita 26 354
- Esparza 15 575
- Buenos Aires 11 680
- Quepos 7 810
- Corredor 7 084
Other places named El Alto
- El Alto Piura, Peru
- El Alto Chiapas, Mexico
- El Alto Cajamarca Department, Peru
- El Alto Sinaloa, Mexico
- El Alto Lambayeque, Peru
Nearby places
- Naranjal — 7.0 km
- Ureña — 7.2 km
- Oasis de Esperanza — 7.2 km
- Rotonda — 7.4 km
- Alamedas — 7.4 km
- Bellavista — 7.6 km
Time and daylight in El Alto
The clock in El Alto matches the clock in nearby Naranjal and Oasis de Esperanza.
2 postal codes are listed for El Alto.
The time standard for El Alto is America/Costa_Rica at UTC−6. Daylight saving time applies here: No.
Sunrise falls at 5:21 AM today in El Alto, with the sun setting at 5:17 PM. That leaves 11 h 56 min of light.
Questions and answers
- What time zone does El Alto observe?
- El Alto observes America/Costa_Rica, whose offset is −6.
- Does El Alto go on summer time?
- Daylight saving in El Alto: No.
- When is the sun down in El Alto?
- The sun goes down at 5:17 PM.