Guachal in numbers
- Coordinates
- 0.7951, -79.8953
- Region
- Esmeraldas
- Country
- Ecuador, South America
- Capital
- Quito — 190 km away
- Same name
- 2 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Guachal, Esmeraldas, Ecuador
The clock for Guachal, Esmeraldas, Ecuador is kept here in the America/Guayaquil time zone (−5).
Guachal, Ecuador
Saturday, 24 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Guayaquil
Local time in Guachal
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Guachal.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:02 AM Solar noon 12:05 PM Sunset 6:08 PM Daylight 12 h 05 min Night 11 h 55 min Civil twilight 5:41 AM – 6:29 PM
Weather in Guachal right now
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Guachal and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 080304 La Union — 3.7 km away
- 080303 Sua (Cab En La Bocana)-Tonchigue — 4.4 km away
- 080305 Atacames — 9.3 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 Guachal
Same time zone — America/Guayaquil
Nearby places
- Muchín — 1.8 km
- Sua (Cab. En La Bocana) — 3.1 km
- La Union — 3.7 km
- Same Adentro — 4.0 km
- Muchín Adentro — 4.3 km
- La Lucha — 4.4 km
Local time details for Guachal
Nearby settlements including Muchín and Sua (Cab. En La Bocana) match the time in Guachal.
Guachal carries 3 postal codes.
Time in Guachal runs on America/Guayaquil, which is UTC−5. Does daylight saving time apply here? No.
Sun-up in Guachal is 6:02 AM today and sun-down is 6:08 PM. That gap holds 12 h 05 min of daylight.
Questions and answers
- Can Guachal's time zone be given as America/Guayaquil?
- Yes, Guachal's time zone is America/Guayaquil, with an offset of −5.
- Is daylight saving time used in Guachal?
- No.
- What time will the sun set in Guachal today?
- Today it sets at 6:08 PM.