Santa Cruz in numbers
- Coordinates
- -6.0951, -78.8529
- Elevation
- 1686 m above sea level
- Region
- Cajamarca Department
- Country
- Peru, South America
- Capital
- Lima — 692 km away
- Same name
- 1208 more places in the world share this name
The reading below is the local time in Santa Cruz, Cajamarca Department, Peru, taken from the America/Lima zone (−5).
Santa Cruz, Peru
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC−5 · America/Lima
Local time in Santa Cruz
UTC−5 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Santa Cruz.
Sunrise 5:50 AM Solar noon 12:00 PM Sunset 6:11 PM Daylight 12 h 22 min Night 11 h 38 min Civil twilight 5:28 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.
Clocks in Santa Cruz take America/Lima as their zone, reading UTC−5. Daylight saving time applies: No.
Today's times for Santa Cruz: the sun is up at 5:50 AM and down at 6:11 PM. That means 12 h 22 min of daylight.
You will find the same time in Callayuc and Yerbabuena, both near Santa Cruz.
12 postal codes are current for Santa Cruz.