Indexed entity
Alajuela is the alajuela-CR record in Costa Rica: country slug costa-rica, city slug alajuela, ISO CR, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Costa_Rica.
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Live local time
Alajuela, Costa Rica
04:47:30 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · America/Costa_Rica
Quick answer
It is currently 04:47:30 AM (CST, UTC-06:00) in Alajuela, Costa Rica — Late night.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
22°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Mon
30°C
20°C
100% rain
Tue
27°C
20°C
98% rain
Wed
25°C
21°C
95% rain
In 53 days
Anexión del Partido de Nicoya a Costa Rica (Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica)
Sat, Jul 25, 2026
PublicIn 61 days
Fiesta de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles (Feast of Our Lady of the Angels)
Sun, Aug 2, 2026
PublicIn 74 days
Día de la Madre (Mother's Day)
Sat, Aug 15, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
CRC
Live ECB rate not available for this currency.
Conversion rates aren’t published for this currency by the ECB. The local code is shown for reference.
Today
Sunrise
05:14 AM
Sunset
05:55 PM
Day length
12h 40m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Alajuela, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:47 AM UTC.
Current local time
04:47:30 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CST
America/Costa_Rica · UTC-06:00
Next holiday
Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica
Saturday, July 25, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Alajuela right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Alajuela
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Costa Rica
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Alajuela, Costa Rica.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 04:47 CST
No reference-city overlap right now
Alajuela is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC-06:00
Zone label
CST
London
11:47 AM / +7h
New York
06:47 AM / +2h
Los Angeles
03:47 AM / -1h
Schedule risk
Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica on Saturday, July 25, 2026
Travel cue
San Francisco, 10 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:14 AM to 05:55 PM, with solar noon around 11:35 AM and total daylight of 12h 41m.
Mapped location
10.02°N, 84.21°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:47 AM / +7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:47 AM / +2h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:47 AM / -1h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:47 PM / +10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:47 PM / +14h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Alajuela.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use America/Costa_Rica for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC-06:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC-06:00.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Alajuela right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica on Saturday, July 25, 2026. Nearest mapped context: San Francisco, 10 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for America/Costa_Rica. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Alajuela has no near-term DST change in view, but Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica can still affect office coverage and local response times.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Alajuela.
Canonical route
/time/costa-rica/alajuela/
Catalog identity
alajuela-CR · CR · America
Coordinate cell
10.02°N, 84.21°W · lat 10.017 · lon -84.213 · cell 1002:-8421
Population record
47,494 residents · country rank 3
Zone snapshot
America/Costa_Rica · CST · UTC-06:00
January / July offsets
UTC-06:00 / UTC-06:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
San Francisco, Costa Rica · 10 km
Nearest world hub
New York · 3,558 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Alajuela
Zone peer roster
Limón, Costa Rica · San Francisco, Costa Rica · San José, Costa Rica
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Alajuela: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Alajuela is the alajuela-CR record in Costa Rica: country slug costa-rica, city slug alajuela, ISO CR, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Costa_Rica.
10.02°N, 84.21°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 10 and longitude band -85; exact decimal pair 10.01723, -84.21275.
Costa Rica: official name Republic of Costa Rica; capital San José; region Americas; subregion Central America; country population 5,309,625; area 51,100 km²; languages Spanish; currencies CRC Costa Rican colón. This is the country layer behind the Alajuela clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Costa Rica: Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America. It borders Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, sharing a maritime border with Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island. It has a population of around five million in a land area of nearly 51,180 km2 (19,760 sq mi); the capital and largest city is San José, home to around 350,000 residents and two million people in the surrounding metropolitan area. Source: Wikipedia.
San Francisco [san-francisco-CR, CR, America/Costa_Rica, 10 km]; Limón [limon-CR, CR, America/Costa_Rica, 129 km]; San José [san-jose-CR, CR, America/Costa_Rica, 145 km]; David [david-PA, PA, America/Panama, 264 km]; Masaya [masaya-NI, NI, America/Managua, 299 km]; Managua [managua-NI, NI, America/Managua, 324 km]; León [leon-NI, NI, America/Managua, 396 km]; Chinandega [chinandega-NI, NI, America/Managua, 431 km]
Alajuela is part of this indexed country cluster: Limón [limon-CR, America/Costa_Rica, pop 63,081]; San Francisco [san-francisco-CR, America/Costa_Rica, pop 55,923]; Alajuela [alajuela-CR, America/Costa_Rica, pop 47,494]; San José [san-jose-CR, America/Costa_Rica, pop 31,430].
New York 3,558 km; Los Angeles 4,373 km; São Paulo 5,534 km; London 8,729 km; Tokyo 13,163 km; Sydney 13,802 km; Dubai 14,133 km; Singapore 18,470 km
Alajuela has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Costa Rica.
Alajuela renders Jun 2, 2026 · 04:47 CST; CST at UTC-06:00; January UTC-06:00; July UTC-06:00; next holiday Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica on 2026-07-25.
This evidence pack is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Alajuela.
Alajuela is a context-and-reference city; rank #3 of 4 retained Costa Rica city pages. The route is /time/costa-rica/alajuela/ and the city id is alajuela-CR.
Alajuela has 13 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Alajuela is pinned at 10.02°N, 84.21°W; San Francisco (10 km); New York (3,558 km).
America/Costa_Rica resolves to stable UTC-06:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Costa Rica.
Alajuela has no direct nearby-airport handoff · Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica (Saturday, July 25, 2026) · 0 country airport references · 11 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Alajuela uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Alajuela Province: Alajuela is a province of Costa Rica. It is located in the north-central part of the country, bordering Nicaragua to the north. It also borders the provinces of Heredia to the east, San José to the south, Puntarenas to the southwest, and Guanacaste to the west. As of 2011, the province had a population of 885,571. Alajuela is composed of 16 cantons, which are divided into 111 districts. It covers an area of 9,757.53 square kilometers.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-06:00) is constant year-round.
Alajuela is listed in the dataset snapshot as 6 hours behind UTC (offset -06:00). 7 hours behind London, 15 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -84.21°, Alajuela's mean solar noon falls about 23 minutes before civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run earlier on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Alajuela sits at 10.02°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Alajuela sits at 10.02°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 19 (12h 43m)
Shortest day
Dec 16 (11h 32m)
Year-round average
12h 8m
Annual swing
1h 11m
See the full daylight curve for Alajuela at /sun/alajuela/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Alajuela local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Alajuela |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 07:00 - 15:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 01:00 - 09:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 23:00 - 07:00 (next day) |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 21:30 - 05:30 (next day) |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 19:00 - 03:00 (next day) |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 19:00 - 03:00 (next day) |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 18:00 - 02:00 (next day) |
Public holidays in 2026
11
Reference fields include Alajuela's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 04:47:30 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Alajuela (UTC-06:00, CST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:14 AM to 05:55 PM
Day length 12h 41m · Solar noon 11:35 AM
Next country holiday
Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica
Saturday, July 25, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Alajuela local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
Code with Claude Tokyo 2026
keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
Population
47.5K
Coordinates
10.02, -84.21
Timezone
America/Costa_Rica
Indexed airports
0
Capital
San José
Languages
Spanish
Currency
CRC (₡)
Country area
51,100 km²
Alajuela, Costa Rica (population rank #3 in this dataset). Time zone: America/Costa_Rica (CST, UTC-06:00); population ~47.5K.
Coordinates: 10.02°N, 84.21°W. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~1112 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:14 AM and sets around 05:55 PM in Alajuela — about 12h 41m of daylight. Costa Rica stays on standard time here, so UTC-06:00 is stable through the year.
San Francisco (10 km from Alajuela) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Costa Rica.
Next national holiday: Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica, 2026-07-25.
Alajuela is indexed as a America city in the CR country record, using America/Costa_Rica as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/costa-rica/alajuela/.
Location context: 10.02°N, 84.21°W; population 47,494; nearest indexed city San Francisco is about 10 km away; closest reference hub is New York, about 3,558 km away.
Country planning context: capital San José; subregion Central America; languages Spanish; currency CRC (₡); area 51,100 km²; 0 curated airport references; next holiday Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica on 2026-07-25.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-06:00) is constant year-round.
Alajuela is listed in the dataset snapshot as 6 hours behind UTC (offset -06:00). 7 hours behind London, 15 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -84.21°, Alajuela's mean solar noon falls about 23 minutes before civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run earlier on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Alajuela sits at 10.02°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Related clock anchors for Alajuela: Limón (same time), Sydney (+16h), Tokyo (+15h), Lagos (+7h), Ho Chi Minh City (+13h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
costa-rica
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CST
IANA Zone
America/Costa Rica
UTC Offset
UTC-06:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC-06:00
Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Canada, Honduras
Other cities in this timezone
London
+7h
New York
+2h
Los Angeles
-1h
Dubai
+10h
Singapore
+14h
Tokyo
+15h
Sydney
+16h
São Paulo
+3h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Alajuela.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Alajuela: closest hubs New York (~3,558 km), Los Angeles (~4,373 km), São Paulo (~5,534 km); farthest indexed hub Singapore (~18,470 km).
Alajuela sits inside Costa Rica — the Central America subregion, capital San José, languages Spanish, currency CRC (₡).
Closest indexed cities to Alajuela: San Francisco (10 km), Limón (129 km), San José (145 km), David (264 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Alajuela: Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica, Feast of Our Lady of the Angels, Mother's Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Costa Rica.
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Alajuela, so this page falls back to timezone and regional planning context instead of showing a broken travel panel.
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:47 AM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:47 AM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:47 AM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:47 PM | +10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:47 PM | +14h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:47 PM | +15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:47 PM | +16h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:47 AM | +3h | Check the overlap widget below |
Alajuela is in the America/Costa_Rica timezone (CST), with a UTC offset of -06:00.
Alajuela does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC-06:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Alajuela is UTC-06:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Alajuela, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 04:47 CST. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Alajuela sits at 10.02°N, 84.21°W in Costa Rica, with about 47.5K residents (rank #3 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Alajuela is New York, about 3,558 km away as the crow flies.
San Francisco is the closest indexed city, roughly 10 km from Alajuela.
Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica is the next upcoming holiday in Costa Rica, on Saturday, July 25, 2026.
Alajuela uses Costa Rican colón (CRC, symbol ₡) as the local currency of Costa Rica.
The longest day of 2026 in Alajuela falls on Jun 19 with about 12h 43m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 16 with 11h 32m; the year-round average is 12h 8m.
In Alajuela local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 07:00-15:00; London 02:00-10:00; Frankfurt 01:00-09:00; Dubai 23:00-07:00 (next day). These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.