Current Time in Tijuana, Mexico

How Tijuana Keeps Time

Tijuana keeps PDT, UTC-7. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Tijuana; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Tijuana runs on the America/Tijuana zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC-7 right now. The clocks change twice a year here: UTC-8 on standard time and UTC-7 while daylight saving is in force. The next change is on 1 November 2026, when clocks go back one hour.

The sun rises in Tijuana at 6:59 am today and sets at 6:05 pm — 11 hours 7 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:32 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (32.51, -117.04), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Tijuana has about 14 hours 17 minutes of daylight in June and 10 hours 1 minute in December. The difference is about 4 hours 17 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

At the current civil offset, Tijuana’s longitude corresponds to a difference of about 48 minutes between zone time and longitude-based mean solar time. Today’s calculated solar noon is 12:32 pm rather than 12:00 on the clock.

PDT 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.

Tijuana at a Glance

How Tijuana Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Tijuana. 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 Tijuana

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.