PuntarenasCosta Rica
Current time in Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Monday, 31 August 2026
Central Standard TimeUTC-06:00
⛶ Full-screen clockPuntarenas time at a glance
- Country
- Costa Rica
- Location
- City in Puntarenas Province
- Time zone
America/Costa_Rica- UTC offset now
UTC-06:00- Current zone label
- GMT-6
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Weather now
Weather in Puntarenas
Conditions near Puntarenas and a 3-day forecast. Local conditions can differ across large urban areas, mountains and coastlines.
Partly Cloudy
- Feels like
- 31°C
- Humidity
- 67%
- Wind
- 4.7 km/h W
- Recent precipitation
- 0 mm
3-day forecast
- Patchy rain nearby25°C to 32°C57% chance of precipitationWind up to 18.4 km/h
- Overcast24°C to 30°C75% chance of precipitationWind up to 18.4 km/h
- Patchy rain nearby25°C to 31°C77% chance of precipitationWind up to 16.2 km/h
Forecast valid from 08:00 local time. Updated 2026-08-31T14:13:37.981Z; refresh due by 2026-08-31T14:28:37.981Z.
Time-zone identity for Puntarenas
- IANA zone
America/Costa_Rica- UTC offset now
- UTC-06:00
- Current zone label
- GMT-6
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Puntarenas is currently 6 hours behind UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Puntarenas
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Sunday, 5 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Puntarenas
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for America/Costa_Rica, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Location context
About Puntarenas
Location details for Puntarenas in Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica.
- Administrative area
- Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica
- Population
- 35,650
- Coordinates
- 9.9769° N, 84.8379° W. The elevation is 1 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Puntarenas
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Puntarenas. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- ChacaritaPuntarenas Province, Costa Rica6.5 km east
America/Costa_RicaSame local time - EsparzaPuntarenas Province, Costa Rica19 km east
America/Costa_RicaSame local time - CañasGuanacaste Province, Costa Rica58 km northwest
America/Costa_RicaSame local time - QuesadaAlajuela Province, Costa Rica59 km northeast
America/Costa_RicaSame local time - San Rafael AbajoSan José, Costa Rica62 km east
America/Costa_RicaSame local time - AlajuelaAlajuela Province, Costa Rica69 km east
America/Costa_RicaSame local time
Sources for Puntarenas time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 4 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.
- Weather and Geolocation APIWeatherAPI.com · Forecast API v1; free plan · WeatherAPI.com terms; commercial and non-commercial use permitted by plan · AccessedCurrent weather conditions, the next 24 hours and a three-day forecast.