El Gigante in numbers
- Coordinates
- -7.1804, -78.7365
- Region
- Cajamarca Department
- Country
- Peru, South America
- Capital
- Lima — 574 km away
- Same name
- 35 more places in the world share this name
The clock for El Gigante, Cajamarca Department, Peru is kept here in the America/Lima time zone (−5).
El Gigante, Peru
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/Lima
Local time in El Gigante
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in El Gigante.
Sunrise 5:48 AM Solar noon 12:00 PM Sunset 6:11 PM Daylight 12 h 23 min Night 11 h 37 min Civil twilight 5:27 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.
Mail addressed to El Gigante uses 1 postal code.
Local clocks in El Gigante follow the America/Lima zone, UTC−5. Do they shift for daylight saving? No.
Sun-up in El Gigante is 5:48 AM today and sun-down is 6:11 PM. That gap holds 12 h 23 min of daylight.
Travelling from El Gigante to Chanta Corrales or San Jorge does not change the hour.