Indexed entity
Cancún is the cancun-MX record in Mexico: country slug mexico, city slug cancun, ISO MX, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Cancun.
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Live local time
Cancún, Mexico
05:42:37 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · America/Cancun
Quick answer
It is currently 05:42:37 AM (EST, UTC-05:00) in Cancún, Mexico — Early morning.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
27°C
Thunderstorm
3-day forecast
Tue
28°C
24°C
73% rain
Wed
28°C
24°C
81% rain
Thu
29°C
25°C
83% rain
In 106 days
Día de la Independencia (Independence Day)
Wed, Sep 16, 2026
PublicIn 167 days
Día de la Revolución (Revolution Day)
Mon, Nov 16, 2026
PublicIn 206 days
Fri, Dec 25, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Mexican Peso
1 USD = 17.339 MXN
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
06:05 AM
Sunset
07:25 PM
Day length
13h 21m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Cancún, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:42 AM UTC.
Current local time
05:42:37 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
EST
America/Cancun · UTC-05:00
Next holiday
Independence Day
Wednesday, September 16, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Cancún right now
Nearest airport
MID
Manuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport · 292 km
Indexed airports
12
Curated airport references available for Mexico
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Cancún, Mexico.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 05:42 EST
No reference-city overlap right now
Cancún is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC-05:00
Zone label
EST
London
11:42 AM / +6h
New York
06:42 AM / +1h
Los Angeles
03:42 AM / -2h
Schedule risk
Independence Day on Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Travel cue
MID Mérida, 292 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:05 AM to 07:25 PM, with solar noon around 12:45 PM and total daylight of 13h 20m.
Mapped location
21.17°N, 86.85°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:42 AM / +6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:42 AM / +1h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:42 AM / -2h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:42 PM / +9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:42 PM / +13h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Cancún.
MID · Manuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport
Mérida
PBC · Hermanos Serdán International Airport
Puebla
NLU · Felipe Ángeles International Airport
Mexico City
MEX · Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport
Mexico City
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use America/Cancun for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC-05:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC-05:00.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Cancún right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
Independence Day on Wednesday, September 16, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: MID Mérida, 292 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for America/Cancun. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Cancún has no near-term DST change in view, but Independence Day can still affect office coverage and local response times.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Cancún.
Canonical route
/time/mexico/cancun/
Catalog identity
cancun-MX · MX · America
Coordinate cell
21.17°N, 86.85°W · lat 21.174 · lon -86.847 · cell 2117:-8685
Population record
888,797 residents · country rank 8
Zone snapshot
America/Cancun · EST · UTC-05:00
January / July offsets
UTC-05:00 / UTC-05:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Playa del Carmen, Mexico · 65 km
Nearest world hub
New York · 2,488 km
Closest airport references
MID Mérida 292 km · PBC Puebla 1223 km · NLU Mexico City 1277 km · MEX Mexico City 1289 km
Zone peer roster
Chetumal, Mexico · Playa del Carmen, Mexico · Cozumel, Mexico
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Cancún: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Cancún is the cancun-MX record in Mexico: country slug mexico, city slug cancun, ISO MX, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Cancun.
21.17°N, 86.85°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 21 and longitude band -87; exact decimal pair 21.17429, -86.84656.
Mexico: official name United Mexican States; capital Mexico City; region Americas; subregion North America; country population 130,575,786; area 1,964,375 km²; languages Spanish; currencies MXN Mexican peso. This is the country layer behind the Cancún clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Mexico: Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America and borders the United States of America to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundaries with the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the southeast, and the Gulf of Mexico to the east. Mexico covers 1,972,550 km2, and is the thirteenth-largest country in the world by land area. With a population exceeding 134 million as of 2026, Mexico is the tenth-most populous country in the world and is home to the largest number of native Spanish speakers. Mexico City is the capital and largest city in Mexico, which ranks among the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. Source: Wikipedia.
Playa del Carmen [playa-del-carmen-MX, MX, America/Cancun, 65 km]; Cozumel [cozumel-MX, MX, America/Cancun, 76 km]; Chetumal [chetumal-MX, MX, America/Cancun, 332 km]; San Pedro [san-pedro-BZ, BZ, America/Belize, 381 km]; Orange Walk [orange-walk-BZ, BZ, America/Belize, 388 km]; Belize City [belize-city-BZ, BZ, America/Belize, 432 km]; Belmopan [belmopan-BZ, BZ, America/Belize, 480 km]; Havana [havana-CU, CU, America/Havana, 509 km]
Cancún is part of this indexed country cluster: Mexico City [mexico-city-MX, America/Mexico_City, pop 12,294,193]; Tijuana [tijuana-MX, America/Tijuana, pop 1,922,523]; Iztapalapa [iztapalapa-MX, America/Mexico_City, pop 1,835,486]; Puebla [puebla-MX, America/Mexico_City, pop 1,692,181]; Ecatepec de Morelos [ecatepec-de-morelos-MX, America/Mexico_City, pop 1,645,352]; Ciudad Juárez [ciudad-juarez-MX, America/Ciudad_Juarez, pop 1,512,450]; Mexicali [mexicali-MX, America/Tijuana, pop 1,032,686]; Cancún [cancun-MX, America/Cancun, pop 888,797]; Hermosillo [hermosillo-MX, America/Hermosillo, pop 812,229]; Culiacán [culiacan-MX, America/Hermosillo, pop 808,416].
New York 2,488 km; Los Angeles 3,390 km; São Paulo 6,609 km; London 7,960 km; Tokyo 12,021 km; Dubai 13,433 km; Sydney 14,195 km; Singapore 17,255 km
MID Manuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport in Mérida [MX, 292 km]; PBC Hermanos Serdán International Airport in Puebla [MX, 1223 km]; NLU Felipe Ángeles International Airport in Mexico City [MX, 1277 km]; MEX Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport in Mexico City [MX, 1289 km]; TLC Adolfo López Mateos International Airport in Toluca [MX, 1342 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include BJX Guanajuato International Airport in Silao [MX]; CJS Abraham González International Airport in Ciudad Juárez [MX]; CUU General Roberto Fierro Villalobos International Airport in Chihuahua [MX]; GDL Guadalajara International Airport in Guadalajara [MX]; MEX Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport in Mexico City [MX]; MID Manuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport in Mérida [MX]; MTY Monterrey International Airport in Monterrey [MX]; NLU Felipe Ángeles International Airport in Mexico City [MX]; PBC Hermanos Serdán International Airport in Puebla [MX]; QRO Querétaro Intercontinental Airport in Querétaro [MX].
Cancún renders Jun 2, 2026 · 05:42 EST; EST at UTC-05:00; January UTC-05:00; July UTC-05:00; next holiday Independence Day on 2026-09-16.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Cancún.
Cancún is a manual-dossier city; rank #8 of 21 retained Mexico city pages. The route is /time/mexico/cancun/ and the city id is cancun-MX.
Cancún has 16 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Cancún is pinned at 21.17°N, 86.85°W; Playa del Carmen (65 km); New York (2,488 km).
America/Cancun resolves to stable UTC-05:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Mexico.
MID Manuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport (292 km) · Independence Day (Wednesday, September 16, 2026) · 12 country airport references · 9 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Cancún uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Cancún: Cancún is the most populous city in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, located in southeast Mexico on the northeast coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is a significant tourist destination in Mexico and the seat of the municipality of Benito Juárez. The city is situated on the Caribbean Sea and is one of Mexico's easternmost points. Cancún is located just north of Mexico's Caribbean coast resort area known as the Riviera Maya. It encompasses the Hotel Zone which is the main area for tourism.
Mexico abolished daylight saving for most of the country in October 2022. The local UTC offset (-05:00) is constant year-round.
Cancún is listed in the dataset snapshot as 5 hours behind UTC (offset -05:00). 6 hours behind London, 14 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -86.85°, Cancún's mean solar noon falls about 47 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Cancún sits at 21.17°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Cancún sits at 21.17°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 14 (13h 25m)
Shortest day
Dec 14 (10h 51m)
Year-round average
12h 9m
Annual swing
2h 34m
See the full daylight curve for Cancún at /sun/cancun/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Cancún local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Cancún |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 08:00 - 16:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 03:00 - 11:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 00:00 - 08:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 22:30 - 06:30 (next day) |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 20:00 - 04:00 (next day) |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 20:00 - 04:00 (next day) |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 19:00 - 03:00 (next day) |
IANA time zones in country
6
Public holidays in 2026
9
Cancun is the largest city in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, with roughly 889,000 residents and over a million in its metropolitan area, on the northeastern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula. It observes Eastern Standard Time (EST, UTC-5) year-round under the IANA zone America/Cancun; Quintana Roo left the rest of southeast Mexico in 2015, shifting to a permanent UTC-5 offset and abandoning daylight saving time to align trading hours with the Caribbean and the U.S. East Coast. The city is unusual in being almost entirely planned: until 1970 the barrier island held only a handful of coconut-plantation caretakers, and the resort was built from scratch by FONATUR, Mexico's national tourism agency. Today the Hotel Zone fronts more than 20 km of Caribbean beach and Cancun is the gateway to the Riviera Maya and to Maya sites such as Tulum and Chichen Itza.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-23 (research).
Reference fields include Cancún's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 05:42:37 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Cancún (UTC-05:00, EST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:05 AM to 07:25 PM
Day length 13h 20m · Solar noon 12:45 PM
Next country holiday
Independence Day
Wednesday, September 16, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Cancún local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
888.8K
Coordinates
21.17, -86.85
Timezone
America/Cancun
Indexed airports
12
Capital
Mexico City
Languages
Spanish
Currency
MXN ($)
Country area
1,964,375 km²
Cancún, Mexico (population rank #8 in this dataset). Time zone: America/Cancun (EST, UTC-05:00); population ~888.8K.
Coordinates: 21.17°N, 86.85°W. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~2350 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:05 AM and sets around 07:25 PM in Cancún — about 13h 20m of daylight. Mexico stays on standard time here, so UTC-05:00 is stable through the year.
Playa del Carmen (65 km from Cancún) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 12 curated airport pages indexed for Mexico.
Next national holiday: Independence Day, 2026-09-16.
Cancún is indexed as a America city in the MX country record, using America/Cancun as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/mexico/cancun/.
Location context: 21.17°N, 86.85°W; population 888,797; nearest indexed city Playa del Carmen is about 65 km away; closest reference hub is New York, about 2,488 km away.
Country planning context: capital Mexico City; subregion North America; languages Spanish; currency MXN ($); area 1,964,375 km²; 12 curated airport references; next holiday Independence Day on 2026-09-16.
Mexico abolished daylight saving for most of the country in October 2022. The local UTC offset (-05:00) is constant year-round.
Cancún is listed in the dataset snapshot as 5 hours behind UTC (offset -05:00). 6 hours behind London, 14 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -86.85°, Cancún's mean solar noon falls about 47 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Cancún sits at 21.17°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Sizeable city with about 889 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Cancún: Mexico City (−1h), Sydney (+15h), Tokyo (+14h), Hong Kong (+13h), Mumbai (+10.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
mexico
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
EST
IANA Zone
America/Cancun
UTC Offset
UTC-05:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC-05:00
Brazil, United States, Mexico, Canada, Colombia, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Panama
Other cities in this timezone
London
+6h
New York
+1h
Los Angeles
-2h
Dubai
+9h
Singapore
+13h
Tokyo
+14h
Sydney
+15h
São Paulo
+2h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Cancún.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Cancún: closest hubs New York (~2,488 km), Los Angeles (~3,390 km), São Paulo (~6,609 km); farthest indexed hub Singapore (~17,255 km).
Cancún sits inside Mexico — the North America subregion, capital Mexico City, languages Spanish, currency MXN ($).
Closest indexed cities to Cancún: Playa del Carmen (65 km), Cozumel (76 km), Chetumal (332 km), San Pedro (381 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Cancún: Independence Day, Revolution Day, Christmas Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Mexico.
Closest curated airport references from Cancún: MID Mérida (292 km), PBC Puebla (1223 km), NLU Mexico City (1277 km).
Mexico pages benefit from obvious cultural-timing markers such as Día de Muertos and major civic holidays.
Manuel Crescencio Rejón International AirportMID
Mérida · 292 km from Cancún
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 7m
Hermanos Serdán International AirportPBC
Puebla · 1223 km from Cancún
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 19m
Felipe Ángeles International AirportNLU
Mexico City · 1277 km from Cancún
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 23m
Mexico City Benito Juárez International AirportMEX
Mexico City · 1289 km from Cancún
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 24m
Adolfo López Mateos International AirportTLC
Toluca · 1342 km from Cancún
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 28m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:42 AM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:42 AM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:42 AM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:42 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:42 PM | +13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:42 PM | +14h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:42 PM | +15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:42 AM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
Manuel Crescencio Rejón International AirportMID
Mérida · 292 km away
Hermanos Serdán International AirportPBC
Puebla · 1223 km away
Felipe Ángeles International AirportNLU
Mexico City · 1277 km away
Mexico City Benito Juárez International AirportMEX
Mexico City · 1289 km away
Adolfo López Mateos International AirportTLC
Toluca · 1342 km away
Cancún is in the America/Cancun timezone (EST), with a UTC offset of -05:00.
Cancún does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC-05:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Cancún is UTC-05:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Cancún, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 05:42 EST. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Cancún sits at 21.17°N, 86.85°W in Mexico, with about 888.8K residents (rank #8 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Cancún is New York, about 2,488 km away as the crow flies.
Playa del Carmen is the closest indexed city, roughly 65 km from Cancún.
Manuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport (MID) is the closest curated airport reference, about 292 km from Cancún.
Independence Day is the next upcoming holiday in Mexico, on Wednesday, September 16, 2026.
Cancún uses Mexican peso (MXN, symbol $) as the local currency of Mexico.
The longest day of 2026 in Cancún falls on Jun 14 with about 13h 25m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 14 with 10h 51m; the year-round average is 12h 9m.
Mexico spans 6 IANA time zones in total; Cancún's canonical zone for this page is America/Cancun.
In Cancún local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 08:00-16:00; London 03:00-11:00; Frankfurt 02:00-10:00; Dubai 00:00-08:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.