El Jocote in numbers
- Coordinates
- 9.9572, -84.6657
- Region
- Puntarenas Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 70 km away
- Same name
- 35 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Jocote, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica
You can see the current local time of El Jocote, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica on this page, in the America/Costa_Rica zone (−6).
El Jocote, Costa Rica
Saturday, 17 October 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in El Jocote
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
El Jocote keeps America/Costa_Rica clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:28 AM Solar noon 11:25 AM Sunset 5:22 PM Daylight 11 h 54 min Night 12 h 06 min Civil twilight 5:07 AM – 5:43 PM
Weather in El Jocote right now
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El Jocote and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 60202 San Juan Grande — 3.2 km away
- 60201 Espíritu Santo — 3.7 km away
- 20403 Jesús María — 6.3 km away
- 60108 Barranca — 7.2 km away
- 60204 San Rafael — 7.5 km away
- 20905 La Ceiba — 7.9 km away
- 60203 Macacona — 8.3 km away
- 60115 El Roble — 8.8 km away
- 60112 Chacarita — 11.7 km away
- 60205 San Jerónimo — 11.9 km away
- 60403 San Isidro — 12.3 km away
- 20902 El Mastate — 12.5 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 Jocote
- El Jocote Chiapas, Mexico
- El Jocote Chiapas, Mexico
- El Jocote Usulutan, El Salvador
- El Jocote Chiquimula, Guatemala
- El Jocote Jalapa, Guatemala
Nearby places
- Cascabel — 2.7 km
- Cambalache — 3.7 km
- Jesús María — 4.0 km
- Jesus Maria — 4.0 km
- Salinas — 4.2 km
- Figueroa — 4.2 km
About the time in El Jocote
El Jocote works with 12 postal codes.
Time in El Jocote is measured by America/Costa_Rica, at UTC−6. Whether clocks are moved for summer: No.
Sunrise arrives in El Jocote at 5:28 AM today and the sun goes down at 5:22 PM. That gives the day 11 h 54 min of light.
Nearby Cascabel and Cambalache follow the same clock as El Jocote.
Questions and answers
- Should America/Costa_Rica be used as the time zone for El Jocote?
- Yes, El Jocote uses America/Costa_Rica, whose offset is −6.
- Does El Jocote move its clocks forward at any time?
- No.
- What time does the sun rise in El Jocote?
- The sun rises in El Jocote at 5:28 AM.