El Recreo in numbers
- Coordinates
- 0.3615, -79.2936
- Region
- Esmeraldas
- Country
- Ecuador, South America
- Capital
- Quito — 108 km away
- Same name
- 210 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Recreo, Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Check the current local time in El Recreo, Esmeraldas, Ecuador, which sits in the America/Guayaquil time zone (−5).
El Recreo, Ecuador
Thursday, 29 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Guayaquil
Local time in El Recreo
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in El Recreo, Esmeraldas.
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 – 6:26 PM
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El Recreo and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 900004 Las Golondrinas — 10.0 km away
- 080403 Rosa Zarate (Quininde) — 12.0 km away
- 080406 Rosa Zarate (Quininde) — 13.8 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 Recreo
- El Recreo Tabasco, Mexico
- El Recreo Michoacán, Mexico
- El Recreo Sinaloa, Mexico
- El Recreo Chiapas, Mexico
- El Recreo Veracruz, Mexico
Same time zone — America/Guayaquil
Nearby places
- Peñas Blancas — 2.3 km
- El Paraíso — 5.7 km
- El Progreso — 6.4 km
- La Cuarta — 6.4 km
- Simon Bolivar — 7.0 km
- La Tercera — 8.1 km
El Recreo: clock, sun and surroundings
Coverage of El Recreo by postal code amounts to 3 entries.
The local zone in El Recreo is America/Guayaquil, standing at UTC−5. Whether daylight saving applies: No.
Sunrise reaches El Recreo at 5:59 AM, and the sun sets at 6:05 PM. Light lasts 12 h 06 min.
The clock in nearby Peñas Blancas and El Paraíso follows El Recreo.
Questions and answers
- Do you know which time zone El Recreo uses?
- El Recreo uses the America/Guayaquil time zone, with an offset of −5.
- Is daylight saving time something to watch for in El Recreo?
- No.
- When does light leave El Recreo?
- Light leaves at 6:05 PM.