Current time in Costa Rica
Live local time in Costa Rica with seconds.
Costa Rica — current time
Using time zone of the capital San José
Thursday,
March
5,
2026
Costa Rica on the map
Costa Rica — Information
- Time Zone
- America/Costa_Rica
- Land region (Part of the world)
- North America
- ISO 3166
- CR
- Flag
- Capital
- San José
- Area
- 51 100 (km²)
- Population
- ~4 516 220
- Currency
- CRC — Costa Rican Colón
- Country phone code
- +506
- Direction of traffic
- Right-hand traffic
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Daylight saving time changes in Costa Rica
- Current time zone
- UTC-06:00
- Switch to summer time
- No
- Switch to winter time
- No
