Time in Mexico City
Mexico · America/Mexico City · latitude 19.43°
Reading your clock…
Mexico City never changes its clocks
Mexico City stays on UTC-06:00 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Mexico City and a city that does observe daylight saving still moves twice a year, because the other end moved. A recurring call can drift by an hour without anything changing here at all.
Time difference from Mexico City
Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.
| City | Difference now | Across the year |
|---|---|---|
| London | 7 hours ahead | +6h / +7h |
| New York | 2 hours ahead | +1h / +2h |
| Los Angeles | 1 hour behind | −2h / −1h |
| Chicago | 1 hour ahead | 0 / +1h |
| Toronto | 2 hours ahead | +1h / +2h |
| Paris | 8 hours ahead | +7h / +8h |
| Berlin | 8 hours ahead | +7h / +8h |
| Dubai | 10 hours ahead | constant |
| Mumbai | 11 hours 30 minutes ahead | constant |
| Singapore | 14 hours ahead | constant |
| Hong Kong | 14 hours ahead | constant |
| Tokyo | 15 hours ahead | constant |
| Sydney | 16 hours ahead | +16h / +17h |
| Auckland | 18 hours ahead | +18h / +19h |
| São Paulo | 3 hours ahead | constant |
| UTC | 6 hours ahead | constant |
Daylight in Mexico City through the year
From about 11.0 hours in December to 13.3 hours in June. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 06:37 | 17:45 | 11h 8m |
| February | 06:26 | 18:03 | 11h 37m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 05:39 | 18:20 | 12h 41m |
| May | 05:24 | 18:30 | 13h 6m |
| June | 05:23 | 18:41 | 13h 18m |
| July | 05:32 | 18:41 | 13h 9m |
| August | 05:43 | 18:25 | 12h 42m |
| September | 05:49 | 17:58 | 12h 9m |
| October | 05:56 | 17:34 | 11h 38m |
| November | 06:12 | 17:21 | 11h 9m |
| December | 06:29 | 17:27 | 10h 58m |
Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.
Questions
About time in Mexico City
What time zone is Mexico City in?
Mexico City uses the IANA time zone America/Mexico_City, a fixed UTC-06:00 with no daylight saving.
Does Mexico City observe daylight saving time?
No. Mexico City stays on UTC-06:00 all year. That does not mean the gap between Mexico City and other cities is fixed, though: when a city that does observe daylight saving changes its clocks, the difference between you and them moves even though nothing changed here.
Why does the time difference to Mexico City keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions. London is a clear example: it sits 6 hours ahead, then 7 hours ahead across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Mexico City get?
Around 13.3 hours at the longest, in June, and about 11.0 hours at the shortest, in December. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Mexico City's latitude of 19.43° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.