Time in San Jose

San Jose is in Costa Rica, with about 643,000 inhabitants, and uses the America/Costa_Rica time zone, currently UTC−06:00. San Jose is 2 hours behind New York.

San Jose does not observe daylight saving time: it stays at UTC−06:00 all year.

Today, Thursday, October 22, 2026, the sun rises at 05:25 AM and sets at 05:16 PM: 11 h 51 min of daylight. Coordinates: 9.93, -84.08.

Upcoming public holidays in Costa Rica

• Friday, December 25, 2026: Christmas Day (in 64 days)
• Friday, January 1, 2027: New Year's Day (in 71 days)
• Thursday, March 25, 2027: Maundy Thursday (in 154 days)
• Friday, March 26, 2027: Good Friday (in 155 days)
• Sunday, April 11, 2027: Gesta Heroica de Juan Santamaría (in 171 days)

Other cities on the same time

Limón, Liberia, Paraíso, Puntarenas, Costa Rica.