Current time in San José, Costa Rica
2:46:08 AM
Monday, October 26, 2026
San José is on Central Standard Time (CST), UTC−6. It doesn't change its clocks: the time zone database has no changes scheduled for the next 12 months.
About 335,000 people live in San José, the capital of Costa Rica. The nearest airport with scheduled passenger flights is Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO, 15 km away).
- Time zone
- America/Costa_Rica
- UTC offset now
- UTC−6
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Sunrise today
- 5:25 AM
- Sunset today
- 5:15 PM
- Daylight
- 11 h 50 min
- Population
- 335,007
- Currency
- Colon (CRC)
- Dialing code
- +506
- Languages (country)
- Spanish, English
- Airports
- SJO 15 km
Cities near San José
- Panama City3:46 AM · +1 h512 km away
- Guatemala City2:46 AM · ±0 h873 km away
- Bogotá3:46 AM · +1 h1,252 km away
- Cancún3:46 AM · +1 h1,284 km away
- Quito3:46 AM · +1 h1,287 km away
- Havana4:46 AM · +2 h1,479 km away
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