El Alto in numbers
- Coordinates
- -6.9121, -79.1628
- Population
- 185
- Region
- Cajamarca Department
- Country
- Peru, South America
- Capital
- Lima — 619 km away
- Same name
- 212 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in El Alto, Cajamarca Department, Peru
The clock above shows the current local time in El Alto, Cajamarca Department, Peru, which uses America/Lima (−5).
El Alto, Peru
Friday, 30 October 2026
UTC−5 · America/Lima
Local time in El Alto
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
El Alto keeps America/Lima clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:51 AM Solar noon 12:01 PM Sunset 6:12 PM Daylight 12 h 21 min Night 11 h 39 min Civil twilight 5:30 AM – 6:33 PM
Weather in El Alto right now
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El Alto and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 02660
- 02815
- 02835
- 02865
- 02875
- 06510
- 13170
- 14330
- 20831
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 Cajamarca Department
Other places named El Alto
- El Alto Piura, Peru
- El Alto Chiapas, Mexico
- El Alto Sinaloa, Mexico
- El Alto Lambayeque, Peru
- El Alto Tamaulipas, Mexico
Same time zone — America/Lima
Nearby places
- Corral Viejo — 5.7 km
- Tambora — 6.0 km
- El Nogal — 6.4 km
- Bolivar — 7.1 km
- Lucma — 7.5 km
- El Diamante — 7.6 km
Local time details for El Alto
El Alto is on America/Lima time, which corresponds to UTC−5. Whether the area observes daylight saving: No.
The sun climbs above El Alto at 5:51 AM and dips below at 6:12 PM. Between them sit 12 h 21 min of daylight.
The hour in El Alto is the hour in Corral Viejo and Tambora as well.
Postal areas within El Alto come to 9.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone information applies to El Alto?
- The applicable time zone information is America/Lima, with an offset of −5.
- Does the local time in El Alto change with daylight saving?
- No.
- Both sunrise and sunset in El Alto — what times?
- 5:51 AM and 6:12 PM.