El Paraíso in numbers
- Coordinates
- 0.3775, -79.3188
- Region
- Esmeraldas
- Country
- Ecuador, South America
- Capital
- Quito — 111 km away
- Same name
- 808 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Paraíso, Esmeraldas, Ecuador
The reading below is the local time in El Paraíso, Esmeraldas, Ecuador, taken from the America/Guayaquil zone (−5).
El Paraíso, Ecuador
Friday, 6 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/Guayaquil
Local time in El Paraíso
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
El Paraíso keeps America/Guayaquil clock_time.
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 Paraíso right now
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El Paraíso and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 080403 Rosa Zarate (Quininde) — 11.5 km away
- 080404 Malimpia — 13.0 km away
- 900004 Las Golondrinas — 13.3 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 Paraíso
- El Paraiso El Paraíso Department, Honduras
- El Paraíso Guerrero, Mexico
- El Paraiso Querétaro, Mexico
- El Paraíso Chiapas, Mexico
- El Paraíso Veracruz, Mexico
Same time zone — America/Guayaquil
Nearby places
- Peñas Blancas — 5.1 km
- La Cuarta — 7.0 km
- El Paraíso — 7.2 km
- Rancho Barroco — 7.5 km
- Nueva Jerusalen — 7.7 km
- La Segunda — 8.0 km
El Paraíso: clock, sun and surroundings
El Paraíso runs on America/Guayaquil, which sits UTC−5 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: No.
First light in El Paraíso comes at 5:59 AM today; darkness returns after 6:05 PM. The day gives 12 h 06 min of light.
Look nearby and you will see Peñas Blancas and La Cuarta on the same clock as El Paraíso.
The postal system lists 3 codes for El Paraíso.
Questions and answers
- What time zone governs the clock in El Paraíso?
- The clock in El Paraíso follows America/Guayaquil, with an offset of −5.
- Is there a daylight saving time change in El Paraíso?
- Daylight saving in El Paraíso: No.
- When does morning light reach El Paraíso?
- At 5:59 AM.