Mexico and Central America Time Zone Map — live clock with seconds

Mexico time now — the current local time in every Mexican time zone, including Mexico City, Monterrey, Cancún, Mexicali and Ciudad Juárez, shown live on an interactive map together with Central America and Cuba. Mexico has four time zones: Pacific (UTC-8), Mountain (UTC-7), Central (UTC-6) and Eastern (UTC-5). Mexico stopped daylight saving time in 2022; only Baja California and most towns along the US border still change their clocks.

Time zone map of Mexico by state and of Central America, with the southern United States, Cuba and Jamaica, major cities and the time zone borders in red

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Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

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Plan a call between Mexico City and New York

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Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean

Local time, weather, sunrise and sunset, and a call planner for each city.

Pacific time (UTC-8)

Mountain time (UTC-7)

Central time (UTC-6)

Eastern time (UTC-5)

Cancún

Central America

Caribbean

Mexico City vs New York

Mexico City is 1 hour behind New York in winter and 2 hours behind in summer. New York changes its clocks; Mexico City no longer does.

Time zones by state

Mexico has four time zones:

Pacific (UTC-8): Baja California
Mountain (UTC-7): Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit and Baja California Sur
Central (UTC-6): most of the country, including Mexico City
Eastern (UTC-5): Quintana Roo, home of Cancún

Where the clocks still change

Mexico stopped daylight saving time on 30 October 2022. Baja California and most towns along the US border, such as Tijuana, Mexicali, Ciudad Juárez, Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros, still change their clocks on the same days as the United States.

Chihuahua's new time

Most of Chihuahua state moved from Mountain time (UTC-7) to Central time (UTC-6) on 30 October 2022. Ciudad Juárez and four smaller border towns went back to US Mountain time a month later, on 30 November.

Cancún on Eastern time

Quintana Roo (Cancún, Playa del Carmen and Tulum) moved to UTC-5 on 1 February 2015, for more evening daylight. It has the same time as New York in winter and is 1 hour behind it in summer.

Central America and the Caribbean

UTC-6 all year: Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica
UTC-5 all year: Panama, the Cayman Islands and Jamaica
UTC-5 in winter, UTC-4 in summer: Cuba

In Cuba, CST and CDT stand for Cuba Standard Time and Cuba Daylight Time, 1 hour ahead of US Central time.