Santa Elena in numbers
- Coordinates
- -4.6011, -79.1280
- Region
- Zamora Chinchipe
- Country
- Ecuador, South America
- Capital
- Quito — 491 km away
- Same name
- 736 more places in the world share this name
Local time right now in Santa Elena, Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador appears above, in the America/Guayaquil time zone (−5).
Santa Elena, Ecuador
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/Guayaquil
Local time in Santa Elena
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Santa Elena.
Sunrise 5:52 AM Solar noon 12:02 PM Sunset 6:11 PM Daylight 12 h 18 min Night 11 h 42 min Civil twilight 5:31 AM – 6:33 PM
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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.
Deliveries to Santa Elena are sorted by 4 postal codes.
Santa Elena works to America/Guayaquil time, set at UTC−5. Daylight saving time applies: No.
Sunrise today is 5:52 AM in Santa Elena, with sunset at 6:11 PM. That works out to 12 h 18 min of light.
Time in Santa Elena applies without change in Pueblo Viejo and Balsones nearby.