Current Time in Mexico City, Mexico

How Mexico City Keeps Time

Mexico City keeps CST, UTC-6. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Mexico City; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Mexico City runs on the America/Mexico_City zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC-6 right now. There is no daylight saving here, so that offset holds all year and the difference to other places only changes when they move their own clocks.

The sun rises in Mexico City at 6:34 am today and sets at 6:07 pm — 11 hours 33 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:20 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (19.43, -99.13), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Mexico City has about 13 hours 18 minutes of daylight in June and 10 hours 57 minutes in December. The difference is about 2 hours 21 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

CST is one of several zones in Mexico, so a time quoted for the country as a whole is not necessarily the time here. Check the city rather than the country when it matters.

Mexico City at a Glance

How Mexico City Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Mexico City. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.

Nearby Listed Cities to Mexico City

Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.

Other Cities in Mexico

Mexico keeps more than one zone, so these do not all read the same.