Time in Costa Rica

Costa Rica uses a single time zone nationwide.

CR Capital: San Jose Dialling code +506

Time zones

  • 18:59 San José America/Costa_Rica
    Wednesday, 4 November 2026
    CST (UTC-06:00) · No daylight saving · 73 cities in this zone

City times

10 cities are listed here, out of 73 in the dataset.

  • San José 18:59 Wednesday, 4 November 2026 UTC-06:00
  • Limón 18:59 Wednesday, 4 November 2026 UTC-06:00
  • San Francisco 18:59 Wednesday, 4 November 2026 UTC-06:00
  • Alajuela 18:59 Wednesday, 4 November 2026 UTC-06:00
  • Paraíso 18:59 Wednesday, 4 November 2026 UTC-06:00
  • Cartago 18:59 Wednesday, 4 November 2026 UTC-06:00
  • Nicoya 18:59 Wednesday, 4 November 2026 UTC-06:00
  • San Ramón 18:59 Wednesday, 4 November 2026 UTC-06:00
  • Río Segundo 18:59 Wednesday, 4 November 2026 UTC-06:00
  • Cot 18:59 Wednesday, 4 November 2026 UTC-06:00

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What this does

Every city is bound to an IANA time zone identifier such as Asia/Shanghai or America/New_York. The current time, UTC offset and daylight saving status are all derived from that identifier for the moment in question, rather than from a fixed offset.

Zone rules come from the IANA time zone database shipped with the runtime and follow its updates. No external time service is called.

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