What is MST in Mexico City?
Central Time – Mexico is the same time
Mountain Time and Central Time – Mexico are both on UTC−6:00 right now. Mountain Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read MDT. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Denver
- 8:58 pm
- Time in Mexico City
- 8:58 pm
- Difference
- None
- Next clock change
- November 1, 2026
Convert a time
CST — Central Time – Mexico
8:00 pm
Tue
When the difference changes
Mountain 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 the same time
- November 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027Central Time – Mexico is 1 hour ahead
- March 14, 2027 – onwardsCentral Time – Mexico is the same time
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
Mountain Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming MST.
Central Time – Mexico
Central Time – Mexico stays on CST all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
MST to Mexico City conversion table
Every hour of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, converted from Mountain Time to Central Time – Mexico.
- 12:00 am MDT
- 12:00 am CST
- 1:00 am MDT
- 1:00 am CST
- 2:00 am MDT
- 2:00 am CST
- 3:00 am MDT
- 3:00 am CST
- 4:00 am MDT
- 4:00 am CST
- 5:00 am MDT
- 5:00 am CST
- 6:00 am MDT
- 6:00 am CST
- 7:00 am MDT
- 7:00 am CST
- 8:00 am MDT
- 8:00 am CST
- 9:00 am MDT
- 9:00 am CST
- 10:00 am MDT
- 10:00 am CST
- 11:00 am MDT
- 11:00 am CST
- 12:00 pm MDT
- 12:00 pm CST
- 1:00 pm MDT
- 1:00 pm CST
- 2:00 pm MDT
- 2:00 pm CST
- 3:00 pm MDT
- 3:00 pm CST
- 4:00 pm MDT
- 4:00 pm CST
- 5:00 pm MDT
- 5:00 pm CST
- 6:00 pm MDT
- 6:00 pm CST
- 7:00 pm MDT
- 7:00 pm CST
- 8:00 pm MDT
- 8:00 pm CST
- 9:00 pm MDT
- 9:00 pm CST
- 10:00 pm MDT
- 10:00 pm CST
- 11:00 pm MDT
- 11:00 pm CST
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm MDT, which is 9:00 am to 6:00 pm CST. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Mountain Time (MDT) is used in Salt Lake City, Albuquerque and Calgary. Arizona keeps MST all year and does not follow MDT.
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.