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
Local time right now in Puntarenas, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica appears above, in the America/Costa_Rica time zone (−6).
Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Tuesday, 3 November 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 5:31 AM Solar noon 11:24 AM Sunset 5:17 PM Daylight 11 h 45 min Night 12 h 15 min Civil twilight 5:10 AM – 5:38 PM
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
Sunrise today in Puntarenas lands at 5:31 AM; sunset lands at 5:17 PM. That is 11 h 45 min of light.
Look nearby and you will see Cocal and Playitas on the same clock as Puntarenas.
1 postal code divide Puntarenas.
Puntarenas keeps time under America/Costa_Rica. That places it at UTC−6, with daylight saving time No.
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 5:17 PM.