Santa Elena in numbers
- Coordinates
- 8.9271, -83.3054
- Region
- Puntarenas Province
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 146 km away
- Same name
- 736 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Santa Elena, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica
This page carries the current local time for Santa Elena, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica, in the America/Costa_Rica time zone (−6).
Santa Elena, Costa Rica
Saturday, 17 October 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in Santa Elena
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
Santa Elena keeps America/Costa_Rica clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:22 AM Solar noon 11:20 AM Sunset 5:17 PM Daylight 11 h 55 min Night 12 h 05 min Civil twilight 5:01 AM – 5:38 PM
Weather in Santa Elena right now
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Santa Elena and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 51004
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 Santa Elena
- Santa Elena Santa Elena, Ecuador
- Santa Elena Entre Rios, Argentina
- Santa Elena Bicol Region, Philippines
- Santa Elena Cayo District, Belize
- Santa Elena Usulutan, El Salvador
Nearby places
- Coquito — 2.9 km
- Lagarto — 3.7 km
- Alto Angeles — 4.1 km
- Cajón — 4.1 km
- Calavera — 4.4 km
- San Rafael — 4.4 km
About the time in Santa Elena
Today Santa Elena gets sunrise at 5:22 AM and sunset at 5:17 PM. That leaves 11 h 55 min of daylight.
Close by, Coquito and Lagarto keep time with Santa Elena.
Postal codes in Santa Elena number 1.
The time zone used in Santa Elena is America/Costa_Rica, set at UTC−6. Whether the clocks shift for daylight saving: No.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is assigned to Santa Elena?
- Santa Elena is assigned to the America/Costa_Rica time zone, with an offset of −6.
- Does Santa Elena move its clocks forward at any time?
- No.
- When does morning light reach Santa Elena?
- At 5:22 AM.