Costa Rica's Time Zone
(Serendipity guide) Filipe never left our side from the minute we landed at San Jose until he took us back to the airport for our return flight. It was very comforting to know that being in a different country and not speaking the language there was someone always there for us. The attention to detail was absolutely amazing and greatly appreciated.
—Helen R., Lexington, SC, February 2007
The length of days in Costa Rica varies by only half an hour between seasons, so Costa Rica does not observe daylight savings time.
The current time in Costa Rica is:
The length of days in Costa Rica varies by only half an hour between seasons, so Costa Rica does not observe daylight savings time. All of Costa Rica is in the GMT -6 zone, which corresponds to U.S. Central Time during winter months, and U.S. Mountain Time when the U.S. is in daylight savings time.
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Costa Rica has (plus or minus 1/2 hour) 12 hours of sunshine and 12 hours of night each day, with sunrise (about 5:30 AM) and sunset changing only about 15 minutes over the course of the calendar year (remember where we are on the face of the planet -- about 10 degrees north of the equator). The concept of "saving" daylight is pretty hard for the average Costa Rican to understand. Also remember that all of Costa Rica is EAST of Tallahassee, Florida, and half the year our time zone is like Kansas City or Denver... so it's no wonder sunrise is so early, and sunset is early, too.
For information about sunrise and sunset times, see http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=225.
