Santa Cruz in numbers
- Coordinates
- 9.7318, -84.0243
- Region
- San José
- Country
- Costa Rica, North America
- Capital
- San José — 33 km away
- Same name
- 1208 more places in the world share this name
This page carries the current local time for Santa Cruz, San José, Costa Rica, in the America/Costa_Rica time zone (−6).
Santa Cruz, Costa Rica
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
UTC−6 · America/Costa_Rica
Local time in Santa Cruz
UTC−6 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Santa Cruz.
Sunrise 5:28 AM Solar noon 11:21 AM Sunset 5:14 PM Daylight 11 h 46 min Night 12 h 14 min Civil twilight 5:06 AM – 5:35 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.
You will find the same time in San Pablo and Leon Cortes, both near Santa Cruz.
3 postal codes have been allocated to Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz is placed in America/Costa_Rica, and its offset from UTC is −6. Daylight saving observed here: No.
Today in Santa Cruz the sun appears at 5:28 AM and sets again at 5:14 PM. Daylight holds for 11 h 46 min.