Laja in numbers
- Coordinates
- 8.9360, -83.1996
- Region
- Puntarenas Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 152 km away
- Same name
- 14 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Laja, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica
Use this page to see what time it is in Laja, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica — the America/Costa_Rica zone applies there (−6).
Laja, Costa Rica
Friday, 16 October 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in Laja
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Laja.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:22 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 Laja right now
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Laja and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 60307 Chánguena — 5.4 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 Laja
- Laja La Paz Department, Bolivia
- Laja Biobio, Chile
- Laja Deir ez-Zor, Syria
- Laja Northern, Ghana
- Laja East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
Nearby places
- Quebrada Bonita — 2.3 km
- Santa Lucía — 3.7 km
- Tres Ríos — 4.2 km
- Pilón — 4.3 km
- Cacique — 4.5 km
- Cantú — 4.7 km
Time and daylight in Laja
Laja reads its time from America/Costa_Rica, placed at UTC−6. Whether daylight saving time is observed: No.
The sun comes up over Laja at 5:22 AM today and drops below the horizon at 5:17 PM. That is 11 h 56 min between the two.
Quebrada Bonita and Santa Lucía sit close to Laja and run on the same clock.
Laja carries 1 postal code.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone is observed in Laja?
- Laja observes the America/Costa_Rica time zone, with an offset of −6.
- Is there a seasonal clock change in Laja?
- No.
- What time does the day start in Laja?
- The sun rises at 5:22 AM.