What is Mexico City in CST?
Central Time is 1 hour ahead
Central Time – Mexico is on UTC−6:00 and Central Time is on UTC−5:00 right now. Central Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read CDT. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Mexico City
- 8:17 pm
- Time in Chicago
- 9:17 pm
- Difference
- +1 h
- Next clock change
- November 1, 2026
Convert a time
CDT — Central Time
9:00 pm
Tue
When the difference changes
Central Time – Mexico and Central 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, 2026Central Time is 1 hour ahead
- November 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027Central Time is the same time
- March 14, 2027 – onwardsCentral Time is 1 hour ahead
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.
Central Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming CST.
Mexico City to CST conversion table
Every hour of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, converted from Central Time – Mexico to Central Time. 1 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Chicago, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CST
- 1:00 am CDT
- 1:00 am CST
- 2:00 am CDT
- 2:00 am CST
- 3:00 am CDT
- 3:00 am CST
- 4:00 am CDT
- 4:00 am CST
- 5:00 am CDT
- 5:00 am CST
- 6:00 am CDT
- 6:00 am CST
- 7:00 am CDT
- 7:00 am CST
- 8:00 am CDT
- 8:00 am CST
- 9:00 am CDT
- 9:00 am CST
- 10:00 am CDT
- 10:00 am CST
- 11:00 am CDT
- 11:00 am CST
- 12:00 pm CDT
- 12:00 pm CST
- 1:00 pm CDT
- 1:00 pm CST
- 2:00 pm CDT
- 2:00 pm CST
- 3:00 pm CDT
- 3:00 pm CST
- 4:00 pm CDT
- 4:00 pm CST
- 5:00 pm CDT
- 5:00 pm CST
- 6:00 pm CDT
- 6:00 pm CST
- 7:00 pm CDT
- 7:00 pm CST
- 8:00 pm CDT
- 8:00 pm CST
- 9:00 pm CDT
- 9:00 pm CST
- 10:00 pm CDT
- 10:00 pm CST
- 11:00 pm CDT
- 11:00 pm CST
- 12:00 am CDT+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm CST, which is 10:00 am to 6:00 pm CDT. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
A note on CST: it can also mean China Standard Time (UTC+8) and Cuba Standard Time (UTC−5). This page means US Central Time.
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.
Central Time (CDT) is used in Dallas, Houston, Mexico City and Winnipeg