What is Mexico City in EST?
Eastern Time is 2 hours ahead
Central Time – Mexico is on UTC−6:00 and Eastern Time is on UTC−4:00 right now. Eastern Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read EDT. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Mexico City
- 7:36 pm
- Time in New York
- 9:36 pm
- Difference
- +2 h
- Next clock change
- November 1, 2026
Convert a time
EDT — Eastern Time
9:00 pm
Tue
When the difference changes
Central Time – Mexico and Eastern 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, 2026Eastern Time is 2 hours ahead
- November 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027Eastern Time is 1 hour ahead
- March 14, 2027 – onwardsEastern Time is 2 hours 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.
Eastern Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming EST.
Mexico City to EST conversion table
Every hour of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, converted from Central Time – Mexico to Eastern Time. 2 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in New York, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CST
- 2:00 am EDT
- 1:00 am CST
- 3:00 am EDT
- 2:00 am CST
- 4:00 am EDT
- 3:00 am CST
- 5:00 am EDT
- 4:00 am CST
- 6:00 am EDT
- 5:00 am CST
- 7:00 am EDT
- 6:00 am CST
- 8:00 am EDT
- 7:00 am CST
- 9:00 am EDT
- 8:00 am CST
- 10:00 am EDT
- 9:00 am CST
- 11:00 am EDT
- 10:00 am CST
- 12:00 pm EDT
- 11:00 am CST
- 1:00 pm EDT
- 12:00 pm CST
- 2:00 pm EDT
- 1:00 pm CST
- 3:00 pm EDT
- 2:00 pm CST
- 4:00 pm EDT
- 3:00 pm CST
- 5:00 pm EDT
- 4:00 pm CST
- 6:00 pm EDT
- 5:00 pm CST
- 7:00 pm EDT
- 6:00 pm CST
- 8:00 pm EDT
- 7:00 pm CST
- 9:00 pm EDT
- 8:00 pm CST
- 10:00 pm EDT
- 9:00 pm CST
- 11:00 pm EDT
- 10:00 pm CST
- 12:00 am EDT+1 day
- 11:00 pm CST
- 1:00 am EDT+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm CST, which is 11:00 am to 6:00 pm EDT. 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.
Eastern Time (EDT) is used in Toronto, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit and most of the US east coast