What time is it in Mexico right now? 🇲🇽

It is 5:56 am in Mexico City right now, Thursday, November 5, 2026. Mexico runs on CST at UTC-6, and on 11 further zones besides. Every reading on this page is computed from the IANA time zone database at the moment you loaded it, and the clocks above and below tick on from there.

Time in Mexico now

Mexico spans 4 different clock readings across 12 IANA zones, 3 hours apart from end to end. When it is 3:56 am in Tijuana it is already 6:56 am in Cancun, so "the time in Mexico" is a question that needs a region attached to it.

The offset from UTC in Mexico City is UTC-6, which is 6 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time. Nine in the morning in Mexico City is 3:00 pm UTC.

Mexico time zones in full

Each row is a zone identifier from the IANA database, its reading at this instant, its offset from UTC and whether it is currently on standard or summer time. They do not all agree: the spread across Mexico is 3 hours.

Does Mexico have daylight saving time?

Mexico does observe daylight saving, in 4 of its 12 zones. The next change is on March 14, 2027, when the clocks go forward and UTC-6 becomes UTC-5. Until then the offset here is UTC-6.

Because the clocks move, the gap between Mexico and anywhere that does not move its own is not a constant. It shifts by an hour twice a year, and a difference memorised in one season is wrong in the other. That is the single most common source of a missed call into Mexico.

Where Mexico is on the map

The marker is on Mexico City, the point every sun reading and every call window on this page is worked out from.

Time difference between Mexico City and major cities

Worked out at this instant rather than from a stored table, so daylight saving on either side is already in it.

Best time to call Mexico

A nine to five working day in Mexico City against a nine to five day elsewhere. The overlap column is the stretch when both desks are open, given on each side's own clock.

Daylight hours in Mexico City today

In Mexico City the sun rose at 6:39 am today and sets at 6:01 pm, giving 11 hours 21 minutes of daylight. The capital is losing 54 seconds of daylight a day at the moment, and the sun stands highest at 12:20 pm.

Solar noon in Mexico City is 12:20 pm, which is 20 minutes after clock noon. That gap is the capital sitting at 99.13 degrees west while its clock is set to America/Mexico_City, plus the equation of time, which today runs 16.5 minutes ahead of mean time.

Moon phase over Mexico City tonight

The moon is waning crescent tonight, 25.8 days into the current lunation, with roughly 15 percent of the disc lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 as Mexico reads the date, at 8:53 am local. The moon phase page has the full cycle.

Current time in Mexico cities

The 145 cities this site covers inside Mexico, alphabetically, each with its own ticking clock and its own sunrise page.

Every IANA time zone in Mexico

These are the identifiers a computer uses. A program that stores America/Mexico_City rather than UTC-6 keeps working through every future rule change, which is the whole reason the database is keyed this way.

Convert Mexico time to another zone

The converter pages below take CST against the zones people most often measure it from. Each one carries a full conversion table rather than a single answer.

Information about Mexico

Mexico sits in North America, carries the ISO country code MX and a population of about 128,460,000. Its capital Mexico City is at 19.43 degrees north, 99.13 degrees west, which is the coordinate every sunrise and solar noon on this page is computed from.

Upcoming dates in Mexico

Read on Mexico's own clock, so the day counts below start from November 5 and not from a UTC date. The list is the internationally observed calendar plus the dates common across North America, along with this country's own clock changes and the next solstices and equinoxes. National days set by a country's own statute are not included, because this site carries no statute table and a guessed one would be worse than an honest gap.

Sun and moon in Mexico City today

The sun is up in Mexico City for 11 hours 21 minutes today, from 6:39 am to 6:01 pm. The moon rises in Mexico City at 3:26 am and sets at 3:39 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. It is 13% lit at the moment, a waning crescent, thinning by about 7.1 percentage points a day.

Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.

Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.

Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.

Prayer times in Mexico City

Seven days from November 5, 2026, computed for Mexico City at 19.43 degrees north, 99.13 degrees west, on the clock of America/Mexico_City. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.

Dhuhr is solar noon at Mexico City, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.

Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.

Qibla direction from Mexico City

From Mexico City the qibla is 46.6 degrees on a true compass, which is northeast, or 43.4 degrees north of due east. The Kaaba is 13,647 km away, 8,480 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Mexico City to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.

The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Mexico City before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.

Questions about the time in Mexico

What time is it in Mexico right now?

It is 5:56 am in Mexico City as this page was served, Thursday, November 5, 2026. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.

What time zone is Mexico in?

Mexico uses 12 zones, from UTC-8 to UTC-5. The capital Mexico City is on America/Mexico_City at UTC-6.

What is the UTC offset in Mexico?

UTC-6 in Mexico City at this instant, and between UTC-8 and UTC-5 across the whole country.

Does Mexico observe daylight saving time?

Yes, in some zones. The next change is March 14, 2027.

What time does the sun set in Mexico City today?

6:01 pm, after a sunrise at 6:39 am and 11 hours 21 minutes of daylight.

When is the best time to call Mexico from the United States?

Between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm New York time, which is 9:00 am to 4:00 pm in Mexico City.

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