What is EST in Mexico City?
Central Time – Mexico is 2 hours behind
Eastern Time is on UTC−4:00 and Central Time – Mexico is on UTC−6:00 right now. Eastern Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read EDT. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in New York
- 10:17 pm
- Time in Mexico City
- 8:17 pm
- Difference
- −2 h
- Next clock change
- November 1, 2026
Convert a time
CST — Central Time – Mexico
8:00 pm
Tue
When the difference changes
Eastern 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 – November 1, 2026Central Time – Mexico is 2 hours behind
- November 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027Central Time – Mexico is 1 hour behind
- March 14, 2027 – onwardsCentral Time – Mexico is 2 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
Eastern Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming EST.
Central Time – Mexico
Central Time – Mexico stays on CST all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
EST to Mexico City conversion table
Every hour of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, converted from Eastern Time to Central Time – Mexico. 2 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Mexico City, which is marked.
- 12:00 am EDT
- 10:00 pm CST−1 day
- 1:00 am EDT
- 11:00 pm CST−1 day
- 2:00 am EDT
- 12:00 am CST
- 3:00 am EDT
- 1:00 am CST
- 4:00 am EDT
- 2:00 am CST
- 5:00 am EDT
- 3:00 am CST
- 6:00 am EDT
- 4:00 am CST
- 7:00 am EDT
- 5:00 am CST
- 8:00 am EDT
- 6:00 am CST
- 9:00 am EDT
- 7:00 am CST
- 10:00 am EDT
- 8:00 am CST
- 11:00 am EDT
- 9:00 am CST
- 12:00 pm EDT
- 10:00 am CST
- 1:00 pm EDT
- 11:00 am CST
- 2:00 pm EDT
- 12:00 pm CST
- 3:00 pm EDT
- 1:00 pm CST
- 4:00 pm EDT
- 2:00 pm CST
- 5:00 pm EDT
- 3:00 pm CST
- 6:00 pm EDT
- 4:00 pm CST
- 7:00 pm EDT
- 5:00 pm CST
- 8:00 pm EDT
- 6:00 pm CST
- 9:00 pm EDT
- 7:00 pm CST
- 10:00 pm EDT
- 8:00 pm CST
- 11:00 pm EDT
- 9:00 pm CST
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm EDT, which is 9:00 am to 4:00 pm CST. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Eastern Time (EDT) is used in Toronto, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit and most of the US east coast
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.