El Alto in numbers
- Coordinates
- 1.0460, -79.4284
- Region
- Esmeraldas
- Country
- Ecuador, South America
- Capital
- Quito — 174 km away
- Same name
- 212 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Alto, Esmeraldas, Ecuador
The local time in El Alto, Esmeraldas, Ecuador — in the America/Guayaquil time zone (−5) — is shown on this page.
El Alto, Ecuador
Wednesday, 28 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Guayaquil
Local time in El Alto
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in El Alto, Esmeraldas.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:00 AM Solar noon 12:03 PM Sunset 6:05 PM Daylight 12 h 05 min Night 11 h 55 min Civil twilight 5:39 AM – 6:26 PM
Weather in El Alto right now
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El Alto and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 080114 Tachina-Camarones (Cab. En San Vicente) — 16.1 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 Alto
- El Alto Piura, Peru
- El Alto Chiapas, Mexico
- El Alto Cajamarca Department, Peru
- El Alto Sinaloa, Mexico
- El Alto Lambayeque, Peru
Same time zone — America/Guayaquil
Nearby places
- Peñas Blancas — 2.1 km
- Rioverde — 2.5 km
- Palestina — 2.9 km
- Boca de Cabuyal — 3.4 km
- Rio Verde — 3.5 km
- El Llano — 3.5 km
El Alto: clock, sun and surroundings
The name of the time zone in El Alto is America/Guayaquil, and it runs UTC−5. Daylight saving time: No.
Today El Alto gets sunrise at 6:00 AM and sunset at 6:05 PM. That leaves 12 h 05 min of daylight.
El Alto, Peñas Blancas and Rioverde all run on one and the same time.
Postal codes assigned across El Alto total 1.
Questions and answers
- Should America/Guayaquil be used as the time zone for El Alto?
- Yes, El Alto uses America/Guayaquil, whose offset is −5.
- Is summer time in effect in El Alto at some point in the year?
- Daylight saving observed in El Alto: No.
- How early in the evening does the sun set in El Alto?
- It sets at 6:05 PM.