Indexed entity
San Francisco is the san-francisco-CR record in Costa Rica: country slug costa-rica, city slug san-francisco, ISO CR, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Costa_Rica.
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Live local time
San Francisco, Costa Rica
05:26:08 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · America/Costa_Rica
Quick answer
It is currently 05:26:08 AM (CST, UTC-06:00) in San Francisco, Costa Rica — Early morning.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
21°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Mon
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100% rain
Tue
28°C
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98% rain
Wed
27°C
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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
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Conversion rates aren’t published for this currency by the ECB. The local code is shown for reference.
Today
Sunrise
05:14 AM
Sunset
05:54 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 San Francisco, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 11:26 AM UTC.
Current local time
05:26:08 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 San Francisco right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near San Francisco
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 San Francisco, Costa Rica.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 05:26 CST
No reference-city overlap right now
San Francisco 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
12:26 PM / +7h
New York
07:26 AM / +2h
Los Angeles
04:26 AM / -1h
Schedule risk
Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica on Saturday, July 25, 2026
Travel cue
Alajuela, 10 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:14 AM to 05:54 PM, with solar noon around 11:34 AM and total daylight of 12h 40m.
Mapped location
9.99°N, 84.13°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
12:26 PM / +7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
07:26 AM / +2h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
04:26 AM / -1h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
03:26 PM / +10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
07:26 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 San Francisco.
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 San Francisco 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: Alajuela, 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
San Francisco 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 San Francisco.
Canonical route
/time/costa-rica/san-francisco/
Catalog identity
san-francisco-CR · CR · America
Coordinate cell
9.99°N, 84.13°W · lat 9.994 · lon -84.127 · cell 999:-8413
Population record
55,923 residents · country rank 2
Zone snapshot
America/Costa_Rica · CST · UTC-06:00
January / July offsets
UTC-06:00 / UTC-06:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Alajuela, Costa Rica · 10 km
Nearest world hub
New York · 3,558 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to San Francisco
Zone peer roster
Limón, Costa Rica · Alajuela, Costa Rica · San José, Costa Rica
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for San Francisco: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
San Francisco is the san-francisco-CR record in Costa Rica: country slug costa-rica, city slug san-francisco, ISO CR, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Costa_Rica.
9.99°N, 84.13°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 9 and longitude band -85; exact decimal pair 9.99380, -84.12742.
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 San Francisco 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.
Alajuela [alajuela-CR, CR, America/Costa_Rica, 10 km]; Limón [limon-CR, CR, America/Costa_Rica, 120 km]; San José [san-jose-CR, CR, America/Costa_Rica, 153 km]; David [david-PA, PA, America/Panama, 255 km]; Masaya [masaya-NI, NI, America/Managua, 308 km]; Managua [managua-NI, NI, America/Managua, 332 km]; León [leon-NI, NI, America/Managua, 405 km]; Chinandega [chinandega-NI, NI, America/Managua, 439 km]
San Francisco 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 4,381 km; São Paulo 5,525 km; London 8,725 km; Tokyo 13,171 km; Sydney 13,808 km; Dubai 14,128 km; Singapore 18,477 km
San Francisco has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Costa Rica.
San Francisco renders Jun 2, 2026 · 05:26 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 San Francisco.
San Francisco is a context-and-reference city; rank #2 of 4 retained Costa Rica city pages. The route is /time/costa-rica/san-francisco/ and the city id is san-francisco-CR.
San Francisco 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.
San Francisco is pinned at 9.99°N, 84.13°W; Alajuela (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.
San Francisco 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.
San Francisco 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.
San José, Costa Rica: San José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and the capital of San José Province. It is in the center of the country, in the mid-west of the Central Valley. San José is Costa Rica's seat of national government, focal point of political and economic activity, and major transportation hub. San José is simultaneously one of Costa Rica's cantons, with its municipal land area covering 44.62 square kilometers and having within it an estimated population of 352,381 people in 2022. Together with several other cantons of the central valley, including Alajuela, Heredia and Cartago, it forms the country's Greater Metropolitan Area, with an estimated population of over 2 million in 2017. The city is named in honor of Joseph of Nazareth.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (-06:00) is constant year-round.
San Francisco 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 -84.13°, San Francisco'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.
San Francisco sits at 9.99°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
San Francisco sits at 9.99°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
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 9 (12h 42m)
Shortest day
Dec 17 (11h 32m)
Year-round average
12h 8m
Annual swing
1h 10m
See the full daylight curve for San Francisco at /sun/san-francisco/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into San Francisco local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in San Francisco |
|---|---|---|
| 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 San Francisco's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 05:26:08 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in San Francisco (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 05:54 PM
Day length 12h 40m · Solar noon 11:34 AM
Next country holiday
Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica
Saturday, July 25, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for San Francisco local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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8 days to go
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34 days to go
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5 days to go
Population
55.9K
Coordinates
9.99, -84.13
Timezone
America/Costa_Rica
Indexed airports
0
Capital
San José
Languages
Spanish
Currency
CRC (₡)
Country area
51,100 km²
San Francisco, Costa Rica (population rank #2 in this dataset). Time zone: America/Costa_Rica (CST, UTC-06:00); population ~55.9K.
Coordinates: 9.99°N, 84.13°W. Northern Hemisphere deep tropics, ~1109 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:14 AM and sets around 05:54 PM in San Francisco — about 12h 40m of daylight. Costa Rica stays on standard time here, so UTC-06:00 is stable through the year.
Alajuela (10 km from San Francisco) 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.
San Francisco 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/san-francisco/.
Location context: 9.99°N, 84.13°W; population 55,923; nearest indexed city Alajuela 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.
San Francisco 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 -84.13°, San Francisco'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.
San Francisco sits at 9.99°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Related clock anchors for San Francisco: 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
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 San Francisco.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from San Francisco: closest hubs New York (~3,558 km), Los Angeles (~4,381 km), São Paulo (~5,525 km); farthest indexed hub Singapore (~18,477 km).
San Francisco sits inside Costa Rica — the Central America subregion, capital San José, languages Spanish, currency CRC (₡).
Closest indexed cities to San Francisco: Alajuela (10 km), Limón (120 km), San José (153 km), David (255 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around San Francisco: 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 San Francisco, 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 | 12:26 PM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 07:26 AM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 04:26 AM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 03:26 PM | +10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 07:26 PM | +14h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 08:26 PM | +15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 09:26 PM | +16h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 08:26 AM | +3h | Check the overlap widget below |
San Francisco is in the America/Costa_Rica timezone (CST), with a UTC offset of -06:00.
San Francisco 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 San Francisco is UTC-06:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for San Francisco, 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 · 05:26 CST. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
San Francisco sits at 9.99°N, 84.13°W in Costa Rica, with about 55.9K residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to San Francisco is New York, about 3,558 km away as the crow flies.
Alajuela is the closest indexed city, roughly 10 km from San Francisco.
Annexation of the Party of Nicoya to Costa Rica is the next upcoming holiday in Costa Rica, on Saturday, July 25, 2026.
San Francisco uses Costa Rican colón (CRC, symbol ₡) as the local currency of Costa Rica.
The longest day of 2026 in San Francisco falls on Jun 9 with about 12h 42m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 17 with 11h 32m; the year-round average is 12h 8m.
In San Francisco 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.