Current time in Costa Rica

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Local time in Costa Rica

The time in Costa Rica is 6.0 hours behind UTC and 1.0 hour behind Ashburn. There is no daylightsaving in effect at the moment.

Details for the time in Costa Rica

Current time	8:32 p.m.
Timezone	Central Standard Time (CST)
Olson timezone name	America/Costa_Rica
Time difference	1.0 hour behind Ashburn
	6.0 hours behind UTC

More about the time in Costa Rica

Costa Rica uses Central Standard Time CST. CST is UTC -0600. Costa Rica's latitude and longitude is 10° 00' N and 84° 00' W . Therefore a six hours offset between CST and UTC is not surprising. Because of its low latitude Costa Rica has no use for day light savings time.

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