Puntarenas in numbers
- Coordinates
- 9.9810, -84.8134
- Population
- 35 650
- Region
- Puntarenas Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 86 km away
- Same name
- 1 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Puntarenas, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica
The time in Puntarenas, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica at this very moment is shown below, in the America/Costa_Rica zone (−6).
Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Friday, 4 September 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in Puntarenas
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Local time in Puntarenas, Puntarenas Province.
The sun today
Sunrise 05:31 Solar noon 11:40 Sunset 17:48 Daylight 12 h 17 min Night 11 h 43 min Civil twilight 05:10 – 18:09
Weather in Puntarenas right now
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Puntarenas and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 60101
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
Other places named Puntarenas
- Puntarenas San Marcos, Guatemala
Nearby places
- Cocal — 0.0 km
- Playitas — 1.4 km
- Pochote — 1.6 km
- Provincia De Puntarenas — 1.9 km
- Angostura — 3.4 km
- Pueblo Redondo — 3.5 km
About the time in Puntarenas
Time in Chacarita and Corralillo, both close to Puntarenas, runs the same.
Within Puntarenas, postal codes number 1.
Puntarenas keeps time under America/Costa_Rica. That places it at UTC−6, with daylight saving time No.
The sun rises here at 05:31 and sets at 17:48 in Puntarenas today. Daylight adds up to 12 h 17 min.
Questions and answers
- What should I enter as the time zone for Puntarenas?
- Enter America/Costa_Rica as the time zone for Puntarenas; its offset is −6.
- Does Puntarenas switch to summer time during the year?
- Daylight saving time observed in Puntarenas: No.
- When does daylight end in Puntarenas?
- Daylight ends at 17:48.