What is CET in Mexico City?
Central Time – Mexico is 8 hours behind
Central European Time is on UTC+2:00 and Central Time – Mexico is on UTC−6:00 right now. Central European Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read CEST. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Paris
- 4:58 am
- Time in Mexico City
- 8:58 pm
- Difference
- −8 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
Central European 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 8 hours behind
- October 25, 2026 – March 28, 2027Central Time – Mexico is 7 hours behind
- March 28, 2027 – onwardsCentral Time – Mexico is 8 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
Central European Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming CET.
Central Time – Mexico
Central Time – Mexico stays on CST all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
CET to Mexico City conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from Central European Time to Central Time – Mexico. 8 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Mexico City, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CEST
- 4:00 pm CST−1 day
- 1:00 am CEST
- 5:00 pm CST−1 day
- 2:00 am CEST
- 6:00 pm CST−1 day
- 3:00 am CEST
- 7:00 pm CST−1 day
- 4:00 am CEST
- 8:00 pm CST−1 day
- 5:00 am CEST
- 9:00 pm CST−1 day
- 6:00 am CEST
- 10:00 pm CST−1 day
- 7:00 am CEST
- 11:00 pm CST−1 day
- 8:00 am CEST
- 12:00 am CST
- 9:00 am CEST
- 1:00 am CST
- 10:00 am CEST
- 2:00 am CST
- 11:00 am CEST
- 3:00 am CST
- 12:00 pm CEST
- 4:00 am CST
- 1:00 pm CEST
- 5:00 am CST
- 2:00 pm CEST
- 6:00 am CST
- 3:00 pm CEST
- 7:00 am CST
- 4:00 pm CEST
- 8:00 am CST
- 5:00 pm CEST
- 9:00 am CST
- 6:00 pm CEST
- 10:00 am CST
- 7:00 pm CEST
- 11:00 am CST
- 8:00 pm CEST
- 12:00 pm CST
- 9:00 pm CEST
- 1:00 pm CST
- 10:00 pm CEST
- 2:00 pm CST
- 11:00 pm CEST
- 3:00 pm CST
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm CEST, which is 9:00 am to 10:00 am CST. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Central European Time (CEST) is used in Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Stockholm
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.