San José in numbers
- Coordinates
- 0.4892, -79.8773
- Region
- Esmeraldas
- Country
- Ecuador, South America
- Capital
- Quito — 170 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
Saturday, 17 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Guayaquil
Local time in San José
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in San José.
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
- 080301 San Gregorio-Muisne — 5.6 km away
- 080308 Bolivar-Daule — 14.2 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
- La Magdalena — 0.7 km
- San Salvador — 2.4 km
- Canalón — 3.3 km
- San Jacinto — 4.2 km
- La Delicia — 5.7 km
- Las Delicias — 6.0 km
San José: clock, sun and surroundings
San José sees the sun rise at 6:03 AM and set at 6:09 PM today. Daylight runs for 12 h 06 min.
La Magdalena and San Salvador are near San José and do not differ from it in time.
Coverage of San José by postal code amounts to 2 entries.
San José reads its time from America/Guayaquil, placed at UTC−5. Whether daylight saving time is observed: No.
Questions and answers
- What is the correct time zone for San José?
- The correct time zone for San José is America/Guayaquil, with an offset of −5.
- Do daylight saving time rules cover San José?
- Daylight saving time in San José: No.
- When does the sun come up in San José?
- Sunrise in San José is at 6:03 AM.