Indexed entity
Playa del Carmen is the playa-del-carmen-MX record in Mexico: country slug mexico, city slug playa-del-carmen, ISO MX, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Cancun.
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Live local time
Playa del Carmen, Mexico
05:45:13 AMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · America/Cancun
Quick answer
It is currently 05:45:13 AM (EST, UTC-05:00) in Playa del Carmen, Mexico — Early morning.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
28°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
28°C
25°C
78% rain
Wed
28°C
24°C
81% rain
Thu
30°C
25°C
84% 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
06:07 AM
Sunset
07:25 PM
Day length
13h 19m
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 Playa del Carmen, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:45 AM UTC.
Current local time
05:45:13 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 Playa del Carmen right now
Nearest airport
MID
Manuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport · 269 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 Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 05:45 EST
No reference-city overlap right now
Playa del Carmen 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
11:45 AM / +6h
New York
06:45 AM / +1h
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -2h
Schedule risk
Independence Day on Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Travel cue
MID Mérida, 269 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 06:07 AM to 07:25 PM, with solar noon around 12:46 PM and total daylight of 13h 18m.
Mapped location
20.63°N, 87.08°W
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:45 AM / +6h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:45 AM / +1h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -2h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:45 PM / +9h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:45 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 Playa del Carmen.
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 Playa del Carmen 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, 269 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
Playa del Carmen 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 Playa del Carmen.
Canonical route
/time/mexico/playa-del-carmen/
Catalog identity
playa-del-carmen-MX · MX · America
Coordinate cell
20.63°N, 87.08°W · lat 20.627 · lon -87.080 · cell 2063:-8708
Population record
149,923 residents · country rank 19
Zone snapshot
America/Cancun · EST · UTC-05:00
January / July offsets
UTC-05:00 / UTC-05:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Cozumel, Mexico · 20 km
Nearest world hub
New York · 2,553 km
Closest airport references
MID Mérida 269 km · PBC Puebla 1192 km · NLU Mexico City 1249 km · MEX Mexico City 1259 km
Zone peer roster
Cancún, Mexico · Chetumal, Mexico · Cozumel, Mexico
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Playa del Carmen: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Playa del Carmen is the playa-del-carmen-MX record in Mexico: country slug mexico, city slug playa-del-carmen, ISO MX, continent America, canonical IANA zone America/Cancun.
20.63°N, 87.08°W; Northern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 20 and longitude band -88; exact decimal pair 20.62740, -87.07987.
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 Playa del Carmen 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.
Cozumel [cozumel-MX, MX, America/Cancun, 20 km]; Cancún [cancun-MX, MX, America/Cancun, 65 km]; Chetumal [chetumal-MX, MX, America/Cancun, 267 km]; San Pedro [san-pedro-BZ, BZ, America/Belize, 316 km]; Orange Walk [orange-walk-BZ, BZ, America/Belize, 323 km]; Belize City [belize-city-BZ, BZ, America/Belize, 367 km]; Belmopan [belmopan-BZ, BZ, America/Belize, 415 km]; La Ceiba [la-ceiba-HN, HN, America/Tegucigalpa, 542 km]
Playa del Carmen 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 2,553 km; Los Angeles 3,402 km; São Paulo 6,582 km; London 8,022 km; Tokyo 12,054 km; Dubai 13,495 km; Sydney 14,146 km; Singapore 17,298 km
MID Manuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport in Mérida [MX, 269 km]; PBC Hermanos Serdán International Airport in Puebla [MX, 1192 km]; NLU Felipe Ángeles International Airport in Mexico City [MX, 1249 km]; MEX Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport in Mexico City [MX, 1259 km]; TLC Adolfo López Mateos International Airport in Toluca [MX, 1312 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].
Playa del Carmen renders Jun 2, 2026 · 05:45 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 is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Playa del Carmen.
Playa del Carmen is a context-and-reference city; rank #19 of 21 retained Mexico city pages. The route is /time/mexico/playa-del-carmen/ and the city id is playa-del-carmen-MX.
Playa del Carmen has 15 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.
Playa del Carmen is pinned at 20.63°N, 87.08°W; Cozumel (20 km); New York (2,553 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 (269 km) · Independence Day (Wednesday, September 16, 2026) · 12 country airport references · 9 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Playa del Carmen 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.
Playa del Carmen: Playa del Carmen is a resort city along the Caribbean Sea in the southeastern state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is part of the municipality of Solidaridad. As of 2020, the city's population was just over 300,000, a small yet thriving portion of whom are immigrants.
Mexico abolished daylight saving for most of the country in October 2022. The local UTC offset (-05:00) is constant year-round.
Playa del Carmen 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 -87.08°, Playa del Carmen's mean solar noon falls about 48 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.
Playa del Carmen sits at 20.63°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.
Playa del Carmen sits at 20.63°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 15 (13h 23m)
Shortest day
Dec 14 (10h 53m)
Year-round average
12h 9m
Annual swing
2h 30m
See the full daylight curve for Playa del Carmen at /sun/playa-del-carmen/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Playa del Carmen local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Playa del Carmen |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Reference fields include Playa del Carmen's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 05:45:13 AM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Playa del Carmen (UTC-05:00, EST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
06:07 AM to 07:25 PM
Day length 13h 18m · Solar noon 12:46 PM
Next country holiday
Independence Day
Wednesday, September 16, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Playa del Carmen 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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161 days to go
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187 days to go
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8 days to go
Population
149.9K
Coordinates
20.63, -87.08
Timezone
America/Cancun
Indexed airports
12
Capital
Mexico City
Languages
Spanish
Currency
MXN ($)
Country area
1,964,375 km²
Playa del Carmen, Mexico (population rank #19 in this dataset). Time zone: America/Cancun (EST, UTC-05:00); population ~149.9K.
Coordinates: 20.63°N, 87.08°W. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~2290 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 06:07 AM and sets around 07:25 PM in Playa del Carmen — about 13h 18m of daylight. Mexico stays on standard time here, so UTC-05:00 is stable through the year.
Cozumel (20 km from Playa del Carmen) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 12 curated airport pages indexed for Mexico.
Next national holiday: Independence Day, 2026-09-16.
Playa del Carmen is indexed as a America city in the MX country record, using America/Cancun as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/mexico/playa-del-carmen/.
Location context: 20.63°N, 87.08°W; population 149,923; nearest indexed city Cozumel is about 20 km away; closest reference hub is New York, about 2,553 km away.
Country planning context: capital Mexico City; subregion North America; languages Spanish; currency MXN ($); 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.
Playa del Carmen 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 -87.08°, Playa del Carmen's mean solar noon falls about 48 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.
Playa del Carmen sits at 20.63°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.
Mid-sized city with around 150 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Playa del Carmen city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Playa del Carmen: Mexico City (−1h), Sydney (+15h), Tokyo (+14h), Mumbai (+10.5h), Hong Kong (+13h).
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
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 Playa del Carmen.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Playa del Carmen: closest hubs New York (~2,553 km), Los Angeles (~3,402 km), São Paulo (~6,582 km); farthest indexed hub Singapore (~17,298 km).
Playa del Carmen sits inside Mexico — the North America subregion, capital Mexico City, languages Spanish, currency MXN ($).
Closest indexed cities to Playa del Carmen: Cozumel (20 km), Cancún (65 km), Chetumal (267 km), San Pedro (316 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Playa del Carmen: Independence Day, Revolution Day, Christmas Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Mexico.
Closest curated airport references from Playa del Carmen: MID Mérida (269 km), PBC Puebla (1192 km), NLU Mexico City (1249 km).
Mexico is especially strong when framed as a cross-border business and travel market with the United States.
Manuel Crescencio Rejón International AirportMID
Mérida · 269 km from Playa del Carmen
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 6m
Hermanos Serdán International AirportPBC
Puebla · 1192 km from Playa del Carmen
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 17m
Felipe Ángeles International AirportNLU
Mexico City · 1249 km from Playa del Carmen
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 21m
Mexico City Benito Juárez International AirportMEX
Mexico City · 1259 km from Playa del Carmen
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 22m
Adolfo López Mateos International AirportTLC
Toluca · 1312 km from Playa del Carmen
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 26m
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 | 11:45 AM | +6h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:45 AM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:45 AM | -2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:45 PM | +9h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:45 PM | +13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:45 PM | +14h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:45 PM | +15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:45 AM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
Manuel Crescencio Rejón International AirportMID
Mérida · 269 km away
Hermanos Serdán International AirportPBC
Puebla · 1192 km away
Felipe Ángeles International AirportNLU
Mexico City · 1249 km away
Mexico City Benito Juárez International AirportMEX
Mexico City · 1259 km away
Adolfo López Mateos International AirportTLC
Toluca · 1312 km away
Playa del Carmen is in the America/Cancun timezone (EST), with a UTC offset of -05:00.
Playa del Carmen 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 Playa del Carmen is UTC-05:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Playa del Carmen, 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 · 05:45 EST. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Playa del Carmen sits at 20.63°N, 87.08°W in Mexico, with about 149.9K residents (rank #19 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Playa del Carmen is New York, about 2,553 km away as the crow flies.
Cozumel is the closest indexed city, roughly 20 km from Playa del Carmen.
Manuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport (MID) is the closest curated airport reference, about 269 km from Playa del Carmen.
Independence Day is the next upcoming holiday in Mexico, on Wednesday, September 16, 2026.
Playa del Carmen uses Mexican peso (MXN, symbol $) as the local currency of Mexico.
The longest day of 2026 in Playa del Carmen falls on Jun 15 with about 13h 23m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 14 with 10h 53m; the year-round average is 12h 9m.
Mexico spans 6 IANA time zones in total; Playa del Carmen's canonical zone for this page is America/Cancun.
In Playa del Carmen 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.