San José in numbers
- Coordinates
- 0.7688, -80.0882
- Region
- Esmeraldas
- Country
- Ecuador, South America
- Capital
- Quito — 206 km away
- Same name
- 2295 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in San José, Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Below is the local time in San José, Esmeraldas, Ecuador, kept in the America/Guayaquil zone (−5).
San José, Ecuador
Monday, 19 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Guayaquil
Local time in San José
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
Local time in San José, Esmeraldas.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:03 AM Solar noon 12:06 PM Sunset 6:09 PM Daylight 12 h 06 min Night 11 h 54 min Civil twilight 5:42 AM – 6:30 PM
Weather in San José right now
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San José and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 080302 Galera-San Francisco-Quingue (Olmedo Perdomo Franco) — 9.8 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 San José
- San Jose California, United States
- San Jose Heredia Province, Costa Rica
- San Jose San José, Costa Rica
- San Jose Alajuela Province, Costa Rica
- San Jose Mimaropa, Philippines
Same time zone — America/Guayaquil
Nearby places
- Tortuga — 0.6 km
- Estero de Plátano — 0.8 km
- San Enrique — 1.2 km
- Galeritas — 3.4 km
- San Francisco — 4.3 km
- Quingue — 5.6 km
San José: clock, sun and surroundings
For San José the applicable zone is America/Guayaquil, running UTC−5. Daylight saving time: No.
Sunrise reaches San José at 6:03 AM, and the sun sets at 6:09 PM. Light lasts 12 h 06 min.
Travelling from San José to Tortuga or Estero de Plátano does not change the hour.
The postal system lists 1 codes for San José.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone should I use for San José?
- Use America/Guayaquil for San José; its offset is −5.
- Is there a daylight saving adjustment to the time in San José?
- No.
- What time does the day start in San José?
- The sun rises at 6:03 AM.