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About San José
Home to roughly 339,581 residents, San José is a small but established city in Costa Rica. Its terrain rests around 1170 m of elevation, giving the area cooler nights than its latitude alone would suggest.
For computers and clocks, San José is anchored to the America/Costa_Rica time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. The equatorial, northern-hemisphere setting at 9.93° latitude defines its day-length swing across the year — long summer evenings and shorter winter days.
Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent San José's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in San José
The current local time in San José, Costa Rica is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
San José uses the IANA time zone America/Costa_Rica, currently UTC−6.
Whether San José observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (America/Costa_Rica) is the source of truth.
San José is currently 2 hours behind New York.
San José is currently 7 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for San José are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (9.9281, -84.0907).
Currency and dialing-code information is not available for this entry.
San José sits at 9.9281° N, 84.0907° W, 1170 m above sea level, in Costa Rica.