Local time in Mexico
United Mexican States
Current local time in Mexico — this country spans 12 time zones. The clocks below update live in your browser.
Mexico spans 12 IANA time zones in total; the 4 principal zones (one per UTC offset) are shown above.
Time difference — Mexico City
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Differences are relative to Mexico City, Mexico, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Mexico
- Standard label
- UTC-5 to UTC-8
- Standard offset (Mexico City)
- UTC−6
- Daylight saving time
- Observed in some zones
- Number of time zones
- 12
- Capital
- Mexico City
- IANA zones
- America/Bahia_Banderas, America/Cancun, America/Chihuahua, America/Ciudad_Juarez, America/Hermosillo, America/Matamoros, America/Mazatlan, America/Merida +4 more
Mexico uses UTC-5 to UTC-8 as its standard time across 12 IANA zones. Some of its zones adjust clocks seasonally for daylight saving time. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in Mexico.
Sunrise and sunset in Mexico City
At 19.4° north, Mexico City gets 13 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 10 h 58 min around the December solstice — a difference of 2 h 20 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 07:14 | 12:48 | 18:23 | 11 h 09 min |
| 21 February | 07:02 | 12:51 | 18:40 | 11 h 37 min |
| 21 March | 06:41 | 12:44 | 18:48 | 12 h 08 min |
| 21 April | 06:15 | 12:36 | 18:56 | 12 h 41 min |
| 21 May | 06:01 | 12:34 | 19:08 | 13 h 07 min |
| 21 June | 06:00 | 12:39 | 19:18 | 13 h 18 min |
| 21 July | 06:10 | 12:44 | 19:17 | 13 h 08 min |
| 21 August | 06:20 | 12:41 | 19:02 | 12 h 42 min |
| 21 September | 06:26 | 12:30 | 18:35 | 12 h 09 min |
| 21 October | 06:33 | 12:22 | 18:10 | 11 h 37 min |
| 21 November | 06:49 | 12:23 | 17:58 | 11 h 09 min |
| 21 December | 07:07 | 12:35 | 18:04 | 10 h 58 min |
Calculated for Mexico City (19.35°, -99.14°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in Mexico (America/Mexico_City)
Mexico does not change its clocks in the America/Mexico_City zone: it stays on UTC-5 to UTC-8 all year in 2026 and 2027.
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.