| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +7h | Becomes +6h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +8h | Becomes +7h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +10h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +15h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +16h | Becomes +17h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | +2h | Becomes +1h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −1h | Becomes −2h on 1 Nov |
Liberia, Costa Rica runs on UTC−6. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−6 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Liberia and New York is 2 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 7 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–16:00 in Liberia lines up with 11:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Liberia and London is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–11:00 in Liberia lines up with 16:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Liberia and Tokyo is 15 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with Tokyo, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Mexico City, Calgary, Edmonton. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Liberia.
Liberia (Costa Rica) is home to roughly 70K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:30, sunset at 17:33. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−6 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 11° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Costa Rica
Capital
San José
Continent
North America
Time Zone
CST · America/Costa_Rica
Coordinates
10.63°N, 85.44°W
Currency
CRC (₡)
Calling Code
+506
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Liberia is called the white city for the pale volcanic stone its colonial houses were built from, and the dust of the dry Guanacaste plain. Its province has a genuine dry season, unusual in Costa Rica.
The clock: Liberia keeps UTC−6. Rincón de la Vieja nearby is an active volcano with boiling mud pots and fumaroles across its flanks.
Liberia lies at 85.4°W. Its time zone, UTC−6, is built around the 90°W meridian. The 4.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 18 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:42 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC−6 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 12h 45m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 30m. The swing between them is 1h 15m. Inside the tropics the day length stays within a narrow band all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Liberia the sun comes up earliest on 30 May at 05:18, while the latest sunset waits until 14 July at 18:08. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Liberia that civil twilight runs about 21 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Liberia, Costa Rica is America/Costa_Rica with a current UTC offset of UTC−6.
Liberia has an estimated population of 70K and is located at coordinates 10.63°N, 85.44°W.
Liberia gets 12h 45m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 30m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Liberia falls at about 11:42 on UTC−6 standard time, because the city sits 4.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
The White City: Liberia is called the white city for the pale volcanic stone its colonial houses were built from, and the dust of the dry Guanacaste plain. Its province has a genuine dry season, unusual in Costa Rica.