🇨🇷 Time in Costa Rica

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05:12:22

Wednesday, 30 September 2026

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Capital City: San Jose

Largest Cities:

ISO Alpha-2: CR

ISO Alpha-3: CRI

IANA Time Zone: America/Costa_Rica (UTC−06:00)

Time Zones: CST

Provinces in Costa Rica

Alajuela Province Cartago Province Guanacaste Province Heredia Province Limón Province Provincia de San José Puntarenas Province

Time Now in Major Cities in Costa Rica

CityCurrent Time
Alajuela Wed 05:12:22
Liberia Wed 05:12:22
Limón Wed 05:12:22
San Jose Wed 05:12:22

Time Now in All IANA Timezones for Costa Rica

TimezoneCurrent Time
America/Costa_Rica Wed 05:12:22

Sunrise and Sunset in Costa Rica (4 Locations)

City ↑ Sunrise ↓ Sunset
Alajuela
↑ 5:25 AM
↓ 5:27 PM
Liberia
↑ 5:30 AM
↓ 5:32 PM
Limón
↑ 5:21 AM
↓ 5:23 PM
San Jose
↑ 5:25 AM
↓ 5:27 PM

Current Weather in Costa Rica (4 Locations)

City Condition Temp.

Information about Costa Rica

Population 4,999,441
Area 51,100 km²
ISO Numeric Code 188
FIPS Code CS
Top Level Domain .cr
Currency Colon (CRC)
Phone Prefix +506
Country Code +506
Postal Code Format #####
Postal Code Regex ^(\d{5})$
Languages EN (en), ES-CR (es-CR)
Neighbouring Countries 🇳🇮 Nicaragua, 🇵🇦 Panama

Upcoming Public Holidays in Costa Rica

This year, Costa Rica observes 9 public holidays, with 9 scheduled for 2027. The next holiday is Christmas Day on 25 Dec. The most recently passed holiday was Independence Day. Explore the full calendar of Public Holidays in Costa Rica to plan your schedule.

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FAQ — Costa Rica

Common questions about this page — answers customized for the data shown above.

The clocks at the top of this page show the current local time in Costa Rica, updated live. Costa Rica uses America/Costa_Rica (CST) — UTC-06:00.

Costa Rica uses a single time zone for the whole country. Countries split into multiple time zones for geographic, political, or historical reasons — wider east-west spans usually mean more zones.

The capital of Costa Rica is San Jose. Click through for the current local time in San Jose, plus sunrise, sunset and weather details for the capital.

The most populous cities in Costa Rica include San Jose, Limón, Alajuela and Liberia. Each city page shows current local time, sunrise/sunset, and weather.

Costa Rica observes 9 public holidays this year. The full list — fixed and movable, religious and secular, national and regional — is on the Costa Rica public holidays page.

Costa Rica's ISO 3166-1 country codes are: alpha-2 code CR and alpha-3 code CRI. These codes are used in address fields, web domains (ccTLD), phone country lookups, and any international data interchange referring to this country. The Costa Rica calendar also uses these as identifiers.

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