Indexed entity
Mexico City is the mexico-city-MX record in Mexico: country slug mexico, city slug mexico-city, ISO MX, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Mexico_City.
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Live local time
Mexico City, Mexico
04:46:59 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · America/Mexico_City
Quick answer
It is currently 04:46:59 AM (CST, UTC-06:00) in Mexico City, Mexico — Late night.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
17°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Mon
24°C
13°C
100% rain
Tue
25°C
12°C
91% rain
Wed
22°C
12°C
100% 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
05:57 AM
Sunset
07:11 PM
Day length
13h 14m
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 Mexico City, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:46 AM UTC.
Current local time
04:46:59 AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CST
America/Mexico_City · UTC-06:00
Next holiday
Independence Day
Wednesday, September 16, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Mexico City right now
Nearest airport
MEX
Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport · 6 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 Mexico City, Mexico.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 04:46 CST
No reference-city overlap right now
Mexico City is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC-06:00
Zone label
CST
London
11:46 AM / +7h
New York
06:46 AM / +2h
Los Angeles
03:46 AM / -1h
Schedule risk
Independence Day on Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Travel cue
MEX Mexico City, 6 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:57 AM to 07:11 PM, with solar noon around 12:34 PM and total daylight of 13h 14m.
Mapped location
19.43°N, 99.13°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:46 AM / +7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:46 AM / +2h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:46 AM / -1h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:46 PM / +10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:46 PM / +14h
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 Mexico City.
MEX · Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport
Mexico City
NLU · Felipe Ángeles International Airport
Mexico City
TLC · Adolfo López Mateos International Airport
Toluca
PBC · Hermanos Serdán International Airport
Puebla
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use America/Mexico_City for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC-06:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC-06:00.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Mexico City 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: MEX Mexico City, 6 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for America/Mexico_City. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Mexico City 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 Mexico City.
Canonical route
/time/mexico/mexico-city/
Catalog identity
mexico-city-MX · MX · America
Coordinate cell
19.43°N, 99.13°W · lat 19.428 · lon -99.128 · cell 1943:-9913
Population record
12,294,193 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
America/Mexico_City · CST · UTC-06:00
January / July offsets
UTC-06:00 / UTC-06:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Iztapalapa, Mexico · 11 km
Nearest world hub
Los Angeles · 2,491 km
Closest airport references
MEX Mexico City 6 km · NLU Mexico City 37 km · TLC Toluca 47 km · PBC Puebla 85 km
Zone peer roster
Iztapalapa, Mexico · Puebla, Mexico · Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Mexico City: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Mexico City is the mexico-city-MX record in Mexico: country slug mexico, city slug mexico-city, ISO MX, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Mexico_City.
19.43°N, 99.13°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 19 and longitude band -100; exact decimal pair 19.42847, -99.12766.
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 Mexico City 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.
Iztapalapa [iztapalapa-MX, MX, America/Mexico_City, 11 km]; Ecatepec de Morelos [ecatepec-de-morelos-MX, MX, America/Mexico_City, 21 km]; Puebla [puebla-MX, MX, America/Mexico_City, 105 km]; Tepic [tepic-MX, MX, America/Hermosillo, 644 km]; Heroica Matamoros [heroica-matamoros-MX, MX, America/Matamoros, 736 km]; Reynosa [reynosa-MX, MX, America/Matamoros, 745 km]; Mazatlán [mazatlan-MX, MX, America/Hermosillo, 865 km]; Nuevo Laredo [nuevo-laredo-MX, MX, America/Matamoros, 896 km]
Mexico City 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].
Los Angeles 2,491 km; New York 3,359 km; São Paulo 7,431 km; London 8,929 km; Tokyo 11,311 km; Sydney 12,973 km; Dubai 14,332 km; Singapore 16,607 km
MEX Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport in Mexico City [MX, 6 km]; NLU Felipe Ángeles International Airport in Mexico City [MX, 37 km]; TLC Adolfo López Mateos International Airport in Toluca [MX, 47 km]; PBC Hermanos Serdán International Airport in Puebla [MX, 85 km]; QRO Querétaro Intercontinental Airport in Querétaro [MX, 172 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].
Mexico City renders Jun 2, 2026 · 04:46 CST; CST at UTC-06:00; January UTC-06:00; July UTC-06:00; 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 Mexico City.
Mexico City is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 21 retained Mexico city pages. The route is /time/mexico/mexico-city/ and the city id is mexico-city-MX.
Mexico City 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.
Mexico City is pinned at 19.43°N, 99.13°W; Iztapalapa (11 km); Los Angeles (2,491 km).
America/Mexico_City resolves to stable UTC-06:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Mexico.
MEX Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (6 km) · Independence Day (Wednesday, September 16, 2026) · 12 country airport references · 9 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Mexico City 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.
Mexico City: Mexico City is the capital and largest city of Mexico, as well as the most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and financial centers in the world, and is classified as an Alpha world city according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) 2024 ranking. Mexico City is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of 2,240 meters. The city has 16 boroughs or demarcaciones territoriales, which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or colonias.
Mexico abolished daylight saving time for most of the country on October 30 2022; Mexico City has stayed at UTC-6 year-round since.
Mexico abolished daylight saving time for most of the country on October 30 2022; Mexico City has stayed at UTC-6 year-round since.
Mexico abolished daylight saving for most of the country in October 2022. The local UTC offset (-06:00) is constant year-round.
Mexico City is listed in the dataset snapshot as 6 hours behind UTC (offset -06:00). 7 hours behind London, 15 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -99.13°, Mexico City's mean solar noon falls about 37 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.
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 18m)
Shortest day
Dec 19 (10h 57m)
Year-round average
12h 9m
Annual swing
2h 21m
See the full daylight curve for Mexico City at /sun/mexico-city/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Mexico City local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Mexico City |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 07:00 - 15:00 |
| London | Europe/London | 02:00 - 10:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 01:00 - 09:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 23:00 - 07:00 (next day) |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 21:30 - 05:30 (next day) |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 19:00 - 03:00 (next day) |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 19:00 - 03:00 (next day) |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 18:00 - 02:00 (next day) |
IANA time zones in country
6
Public holidays in 2026
9
Capital status
National capital of Mexico
Mexico City (Ciudad de México) is the capital and largest city of Mexico with about 9.2 million residents in the city proper and roughly 22 million in the Greater Mexico City metropolitan area, making it the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world. Central Standard Time (CST, UTC-6) applies year-round; Mexico abolished daylight saving for most of the country in October 2022 (a small border strip in Baja California still observes US DST). The city sits at about 2,240 metres above sea level on the bed of a former lake, making it one of the highest-altitude major cities in the world. Mexico City is the financial and political centre of Mexico, hosting the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV), the National Palace, and the headquarters of major Mexican companies including América Móvil, Cemex, and Banamex.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-09 (manual).
Reference fields include Mexico City's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 04:46:59 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Mexico City (UTC-06:00, CST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:57 AM to 07:11 PM
Day length 13h 14m · Solar noon 12:34 PM
Next country holiday
Independence Day
Wednesday, September 16, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Mexico City local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
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NeurIPS 2026
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187 days to go
Population
12.3M
Coordinates
19.43, -99.13
Timezone
America/Mexico_City
Indexed airports
12
Capital
Mexico City
Languages
Spanish
Currency
MXN ($)
Country area
1,964,375 km²
Mexico City, Mexico (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: America/Mexico_City (CST, UTC-06:00); population ~12.3M.
Coordinates: 19.43°N, 99.13°W. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~2157 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:57 AM and sets around 07:11 PM in Mexico City — about 13h 14m of daylight. Mexico stays on standard time here, so UTC-06:00 is stable through the year.
Iztapalapa (11 km from Mexico City) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 12 curated airport pages indexed for Mexico.
Next national holiday: Independence Day, 2026-09-16.
Mexico City is indexed as a America city in the MX country record, using America/Mexico_City as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/mexico/mexico-city/.
Location context: 19.43°N, 99.13°W; population 12,294,193; nearest indexed city Iztapalapa is about 11 km away; closest reference hub is Los Angeles, about 2,491 km away.
Country planning context: capital Mexico City; subregion North America; languages Spanish; currency MXN ($); area 1,964,375 km²; 12 curated airport references; next holiday Independence Day on 2026-09-16.
Mexico abolished daylight saving time for most of the country on October 30 2022; Mexico City has stayed at UTC-6 year-round since.
Mexico abolished daylight saving for most of the country in October 2022. The local UTC offset (-06:00) is constant year-round.
Mexico City is listed in the dataset snapshot as 6 hours behind UTC (offset -06:00). 7 hours behind London, 15 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude -99.13°, Mexico City's mean solar noon falls about 37 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.
Mexico City sits at 19.43°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.
Megacity with roughly 12.3 million urban residents — among the largest metropolitan areas in the world.
Related clock anchors for Mexico City: Tijuana (−1h), Sydney (+16h), Tokyo (+15h), Mumbai (+11.5h), Hong Kong (+14h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
mexico
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CST
IANA Zone
America/Mexico City
UTC Offset
UTC-06:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC-06:00
Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Canada, Honduras
Other cities in this timezone
London
+7h
New York
+2h
Los Angeles
-1h
Dubai
+10h
Singapore
+14h
Tokyo
+15h
Sydney
+16h
São Paulo
+3h
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 Mexico City.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Mexico City: closest hubs Los Angeles (~2,491 km), New York (~3,359 km), São Paulo (~7,431 km); farthest indexed hub Singapore (~16,607 km).
Mexico City sits inside Mexico — the North America subregion, capital Mexico City, languages Spanish, currency MXN ($).
Closest indexed cities to Mexico City: Iztapalapa (11 km), Ecatepec de Morelos (21 km), Puebla (105 km), Tepic (644 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Mexico City: Independence Day, Revolution Day, Christmas Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Mexico.
Closest curated airport references from Mexico City: MEX Mexico City (6 km), NLU Mexico City (37 km), TLC Toluca (47 km).
Mexico’s 2022 DST abolition is one of the strongest timezone-policy facts the site can use.
Mexico City Benito Juárez International AirportMEX
Mexico City · 6 km from Mexico City
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 45m
Felipe Ángeles International AirportNLU
Mexico City · 37 km from Mexico City
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 48m
Adolfo López Mateos International AirportTLC
Toluca · 47 km from Mexico City
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 49m
Hermanos Serdán International AirportPBC
Puebla · 85 km from Mexico City
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 52m
Querétaro Intercontinental AirportQRO
Querétaro · 172 km from Mexico City
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 58m
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 | 11:46 AM | +7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:46 AM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:46 AM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:46 PM | +10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:46 PM | +14h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:46 PM | +15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:46 PM | +16h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:46 AM | +3h | Check the overlap widget below |
Mexico City Benito Juárez International AirportMEX
Mexico City · 6 km away
Felipe Ángeles International AirportNLU
Mexico City · 37 km away
Adolfo López Mateos International AirportTLC
Toluca · 47 km away
Hermanos Serdán International AirportPBC
Puebla · 85 km away
Querétaro Intercontinental AirportQRO
Querétaro · 172 km away
Mexico City is in the America/Mexico_City timezone (CST), with a UTC offset of -06:00.
Mexico City does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC-06:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Mexico City is UTC-06:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Mexico City, 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 · 04:46 CST. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Mexico City sits at 19.43°N, 99.13°W in Mexico, with about 12.3M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Mexico City is Los Angeles, about 2,491 km away as the crow flies.
Iztapalapa is the closest indexed city, roughly 11 km from Mexico City.
Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX) is the closest curated airport reference, about 6 km from Mexico City.
Independence Day is the next upcoming holiday in Mexico, on Wednesday, September 16, 2026.
Mexico City uses Mexican peso (MXN, symbol $) as the local currency of Mexico.
The longest day of 2026 in Mexico City falls on Jun 14 with about 13h 18m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 19 with 10h 57m; the year-round average is 12h 9m.
Mexico spans 6 IANA time zones in total; Mexico City's canonical zone for this page is America/Mexico_City.
In Mexico City local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 07:00-15:00; London 02:00-10:00; Frankfurt 01:00-09:00; Dubai 23:00-07:00 (next day). These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.