What is BST in Mexico City?
Central Time – Mexico is 7 hours behind
British Time is on UTC+1:00 and Central Time – Mexico is on UTC−6:00 right now. British Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read BST. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in London
- 3:58 am
- Time in Mexico City
- 8:58 pm
- Difference
- −7 h
- Next clock change
- October 25, 2026
Convert a time
CST — Central Time – Mexico
8:00 pm
Tue, the previous day
When the difference changes
British Time and Central Time – Mexico do not change their clocks on the same dates, so the gap between them is not the same all year. Most converters show only today’s figure. These are the periods ahead:
- Now – October 25, 2026Central Time – Mexico is 7 hours behind
- October 25, 2026 – March 28, 2027Central Time – Mexico is 6 hours behind
- March 28, 2027 – onwardsCentral Time – Mexico is 7 hours behind
Periods shorter than a day are not listed: both zones change at 2am in their own local time, so there are a few hours on each transition date when the gap is briefly something else.
Daylight saving
British Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming GMT.
Central Time – Mexico
Central Time – Mexico stays on CST all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
BST to Mexico City conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from British Time to Central Time – Mexico. 7 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Mexico City, which is marked.
- 12:00 am BST
- 5:00 pm CST−1 day
- 1:00 am BST
- 6:00 pm CST−1 day
- 2:00 am BST
- 7:00 pm CST−1 day
- 3:00 am BST
- 8:00 pm CST−1 day
- 4:00 am BST
- 9:00 pm CST−1 day
- 5:00 am BST
- 10:00 pm CST−1 day
- 6:00 am BST
- 11:00 pm CST−1 day
- 7:00 am BST
- 12:00 am CST
- 8:00 am BST
- 1:00 am CST
- 9:00 am BST
- 2:00 am CST
- 10:00 am BST
- 3:00 am CST
- 11:00 am BST
- 4:00 am CST
- 12:00 pm BST
- 5:00 am CST
- 1:00 pm BST
- 6:00 am CST
- 2:00 pm BST
- 7:00 am CST
- 3:00 pm BST
- 8:00 am CST
- 4:00 pm BST
- 9:00 am CST
- 5:00 pm BST
- 10:00 am CST
- 6:00 pm BST
- 11:00 am CST
- 7:00 pm BST
- 12:00 pm CST
- 8:00 pm BST
- 1:00 pm CST
- 9:00 pm BST
- 2:00 pm CST
- 10:00 pm BST
- 3:00 pm CST
- 11:00 pm BST
- 4:00 pm CST
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm BST, which is 9:00 am to 11:00 am CST. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
A note on BST: it can also mean Bangladesh Standard Time (UTC+6). This page means British Summer Time.
British Time (BST) is used in the whole United Kingdom. In winter the UK is on GMT; from late March to late October it is on BST, an hour ahead.
Central Time – Mexico (CST) is used in most of Mexico. Mexico abolished daylight saving in October 2022, so it no longer tracks US Central Time in summer.