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What time is it in Santa Cruz, Loja, Ecuador

The clock on this page follows the local time of Santa Cruz, Loja, Ecuador, in the America/Guayaquil zone (−5).

Santa Cruz, Ecuador

3:23:05 PM

Monday, 26 October 2026

UTC−5 · America/Guayaquil

Local time in Santa Cruz

UTC−5 · no daylight saving time

Local time in Santa Cruz, Loja.

The sun today

Sunrise 5:55 AM Solar noon 12:02 PM Sunset 6:09 PM Daylight 12 h 14 min Night 11 h 46 min Civil twilight 5:34 AM – 6:31 PM

Weather in Santa Cruz right now

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Santa Cruz and its neighbours

Santa Cruz at -4.2313, -79.2896 with the nearest towns within 16.0 km · open in OpenStreetMap

Postal codes

110120 Vilcabamba (Victoria)-San Pedro De Vilcabamba — 5.9 km away
110122 Quinara-Yangana (Arsenio Castillo) — 5.9 km away
110117 Chantaco-Taquil (Miguel Riofrio)-Chiquiribamaba — 7.6 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.

Santa Cruz in numbers

Coordinates: -4.2313, -79.2896
Region: Loja
Country: Ecuador, South America
Capital: Quito — 453 km away
Same name: 1208 more places in the world share this name

Largest cities in Loja

Loja 274 112
Catamayo 18 565
Cariamanga 16 862
Macara 13 035
Catacocha 10 872
Celica 5 499

Other places named Santa Cruz

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Santa Cruz Central Luzon, Philippines
Santa Cruz Calabarzon, Philippines
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Santa Cruz Central Luzon, Philippines

Same time zone — America/Guayaquil

Quito Ecuador
Guayaquil Ecuador
Cuenca Ecuador

Nearby places

Yunza — 11.4 km
Masanamaca — 13.7 km
Comunidades — 13.9 km
Fundochamba — 14.1 km
El Sauce — 14.7 km
Ungananchi — 14.7 km

Santa Cruz: clock, sun and surroundings

The offset in Santa Cruz is UTC−5, under the America/Guayaquil time zone. Daylight saving time: No.

Sunrise today in Santa Cruz lands at 5:55 AM; sunset lands at 6:09 PM. That is 12 h 14 min of light.

The clock does not change between Santa Cruz, Yunza and Masanamaca.

The full list of postal codes for Santa Cruz runs to 3.

Questions and answers

Which time zone determines the local time in Santa Cruz?: Local time in Santa Cruz is determined by America/Guayaquil, with an offset of −5.
Are the clocks in Santa Cruz adjusted for daylight saving?: Daylight saving in Santa Cruz: No.
When does light arrive in Santa Cruz?: Light arrives at 5:55 AM.