El Achiote in numbers
- Coordinates
- 0.5252, -79.4098
- Region
- Esmeraldas
- Country
- Ecuador, South America
- Capital
- Quito — 129 km away
- Same name
- 21 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Achiote, Esmeraldas, Ecuador
This page shows the time as it is now in El Achiote, Esmeraldas, Ecuador, in the America/Guayaquil time zone (−5).
El Achiote, Ecuador
Thursday, 29 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Guayaquil
Local time in El Achiote
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in El Achiote.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:59 AM Solar noon 12:02 PM Sunset 6:05 PM Daylight 12 h 06 min Night 11 h 54 min Civil twilight 5:38 AM – 6:27 PM
Weather in El Achiote right now
Loading the current weather…
Weather data by Open-Meteo, updated every 30 minutes.
El Achiote and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 080404 Malimpia — 12.5 km away
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 Esmeraldas
- Esmeraldas 218 727
- Rosa Zarate 42 121
- San Lorenzo De Esmeraldas 20 209
- Muisne 13 393
- Valdez 11 441
- Pampanal De Bolivar 1 118
Other places named El Achiote
- El Achiote Chiapas, Mexico
- El Achiote Huila Department, Colombia
- El Achiote Alajuela Province, Costa Rica
- El Achiote Esmeraldas, Ecuador
- El Achiote Morazan, El Salvador
Same time zone — America/Guayaquil
Nearby places
- Chorro Blanco — 7.3 km
- Macayare — 7.6 km
- La Bocana de Guayllabamba — 8.0 km
- Guaillabamba — 8.0 km
- Puerto Cupa — 9.0 km
- Tapaje Adentro — 9.3 km
Local time details for El Achiote
El Achiote shares one clock with the nearby places Chorro Blanco and Macayare.
El Achiote is split into 1 postal code areas.
Clocks in El Achiote take America/Guayaquil as their zone, reading UTC−5. Daylight saving time applies: No.
Sunrise comes to El Achiote at 5:59 AM and sunset at 6:05 PM today. Together that makes 12 h 06 min of light.
Questions and answers
- Which zone should be used to show the time in El Achiote?
- Use America/Guayaquil to show the time in El Achiote; its offset is −5.
- Are time changes for daylight saving made in El Achiote?
- No.
- Do you know the time of sunrise in El Achiote?
- Yes, it is 5:59 AM.