Time in Mexico now

6:04AMCST

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

CSTUTC−6−1 h vs New York (you)America/Mexico_City

No clock changes: Mexico stays on CST (UTC−6) all year.

Time zones in Mexico now

Zone	Time now	Offset now	Rules	Example
Pacific Time	4:04 AM PST	UTC−8	PST (UTC−8) / PDT (UTC−7)	Tijuana · Baja California
Mountain Standard Time	5:04 AM MST	UTC−7	MST (UTC−7) all year	Hermosillo · Baja California Sur, Nayarit (most areas), Sinaloa; Sonora
Mountain Time	5:04 AM MST	UTC−7	MST (UTC−7) / MDT (UTC−6)	Ciudad Juárez · Chihuahua (US border - west)
Central Standard Time	6:04 AM CST	UTC−6	CST (UTC−6) all year	Mexico City · Central Mexico; Campeche, Yucatan; Durango; Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas (most areas); Chihuahua (most areas); Bahia de Banderas
Central Time	6:04 AM CST	UTC−6	CST (UTC−6) / CDT (UTC−5)	Reynosa · Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas (US border); Chihuahua (US border - east)
Eastern Standard Time	7:04 AM EST	UTC−5	EST (UTC−5) all year	Cancún · Quintana Roo

Time zone in Mexico

Mexico has 6 different clock settings under the current rules (4 standard offsets; some regions share an offset but not the daylight saving rules), from PST (UTC−8) in Tijuana to EST (UTC−5) in Cancún. The clock at the top shows the capital, Mexico City, on Central Standard Time (CST, UTC−6) all year.

The IANA time zone database divides Mexico into 12 zones. It needs more zones than there are clock settings because it also records history: two regions that keep the same time today get separate entries if their clocks differed at any point since 1970, which is why, for example, America/Mazatlan and America/Hermosillo are separate.

Mexico City lies at 99.1° west, where mean solar time is UTC−6:37 (four minutes per degree of longitude). The clocks run 37 min ahead of the sun, so on average the sun is highest at about 12:37 PM.

Daylight saving time in Mexico

Partly. Regions on Pacific Time, Mountain Time and Central Time change their clocks; Hermosillo (UTC−7), Mexico City (UTC−6) and Cancún (UTC−5) stay on standard time all year.

Mexico City last used daylight saving time in 2022, after 27 years with summer time since 1970.

Clock history of Mexico

The record begins with local mean time (clocks set by the sun, UTC−6:37 in Mexico City), which ended on January 1, 1922, when MST (UTC−7) replaced it. Between 1970 and 2024, a daylight saving period began in 27 of the 55 years, most recently in 2022. The first summer time in the record dates from 1931. The table summarises the clocks of Mexico City year by year since 1970, from the tzdata entry America/Mexico_City.

Years	Clocks	Abbreviations
1970–1995	UTC−6 all year	CST
1996–2022	UTC−6 in winter, UTC−5 in summer	CST, CDT
2023 onward	UTC−6 all year	CST

Rows from 2027 on follow the rules in tzdata 2026f; a government decision would change them in the next release.

Convert Mexico time

Time difference between Mexico and major cities

City	Local time now	Mexico vs city now	January	July	Office overlap Jan / Jul
New York	7:04 AM Tue, Nov 3	−1 h	−1 h	−2 h	7 h / 6 h
Los Angeles	4:04 AM Tue, Nov 3	+2 h	+2 h	+1 h	6 h / 7 h
London	12:04 PM Tue, Nov 3	−6 h	−6 h	−7 h	2 h / 1 h
Berlin	1:04 PM Tue, Nov 3	−7 h	−7 h	−8 h	1 h / none
Dubai	4:04 PM Tue, Nov 3	−10 h	−10 h	−10 h	none / none
New Delhi	5:34 PM Tue, Nov 3	−11 h 30 min	−11 h 30 min	−11 h 30 min	none / none
Singapore	8:04 PM Tue, Nov 3	−14 h	−14 h	−14 h	none / none
Beijing	8:04 PM Tue, Nov 3	−14 h	−14 h	−14 h	none / none
Tokyo	9:04 PM Tue, Nov 3	−15 h	−15 h	−15 h	none / none

Office hours and calls

With JavaScript on, this line shows how Mexico’s office hours overlap yours today.

A 9-to-5 day in Mexico City overlaps New York’s for 7 h in January (9:00 AM–4:00 PM Mexico City time), 6 h in July. At 9:00 AM in Mexico City it is 10:00 AM in New York.

A 9-to-5 day in Mexico City overlaps London’s for 2 h in January (9:00 AM–11:00 AM Mexico City time), 1 h in July. At 9:00 AM in Mexico City it is 3:00 PM in London.

Mexico City and New Delhi share no office hours: when offices open at 9:00 AM in Mexico City, it is 8:30 PM in New Delhi. A call has to be early or late for one side: 8:30 PM the day before in Mexico City is 8:00 AM in New Delhi.

Neighbouring time zones

The nearest large cities on a different clock, with the straight-line distance from Mexico City and the difference now.

City	Distance	Time now	Their clock vs here
Tepic Mexico	640 km	5:04 AM MST	−1 h
San Antonio United States	1,110 km	6:04 AM CST	+0 h
Cancún Mexico	1,300 km	7:04 AM EST	+1 h

Same clock as Mexico

These places keep exactly the same time as Mexico all year under the current rules (zones America/Bahia_Banderas, America/Belize, America/Chihuahua, America/Costa_Rica, America/Edmonton and 10 more).

Cities in Mexico

Mexico at a glance

CapitalMexico City
Population131,946,900
Time zone IDAmerica/Mexico_City
Standard timeCST (UTC−6)
Daylight saving timenone
Calling code+52

Questions

What time is it in Mexico now?

The clock at the top of this page shows it to the second. Mexico is on UTC−6 all year, 1 hour behind New York in January and 2 hours behind New York in July.

What time zone is Mexico in?

Mexico spans 6 clock settings: Pacific Time (PST (UTC−8)/PDT (UTC−7)), e.g. Tijuana; Mountain Standard Time (MST (UTC−7)), e.g. Hermosillo; Mountain Time (MST (UTC−7)/MDT (UTC−6)), e.g. Ciudad Juárez; Central Standard Time (CST (UTC−6)), e.g. Mexico City; Central Time (CST (UTC−6)/CDT (UTC−5)), e.g. Reynosa; Eastern Standard Time (EST (UTC−5)), e.g. Cancún.

How many time zones does Mexico have?

Under the current rules, 6 clock settings (4 standard offsets), which the IANA database records as 12 zones because of their different histories.