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