San Carlos in numbers
- Coordinates
- 8.9083, -83.0875
- Region
- Puntarenas Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 162 km away
- Same name
- 605 more places in the world share this name
Use this page to see what time it is in San Carlos, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica — the America/Costa_Rica zone applies there (−6).
San Carlos, Costa Rica
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in San Carlos
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in San Carlos.
Sunrise 5:25 AM Solar noon 11:17 AM Sunset 5:10 PM Daylight 11 h 45 min Night 12 h 15 min Civil twilight 5:03 AM – 5:32 PM
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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.
The sun breaks the horizon at San Carlos at 5:25 AM and leaves it at 5:10 PM. Daylight comes to 11 h 45 min.
The same local time applies in San Carlos, Desamparados and Platanillo.
San Carlos contains 1 postal code.
San Carlos marks time with America/Costa_Rica at an offset of UTC−6. Does the area change clocks seasonally? No.