What time is it in Mexico?

Mexico stays on UTC−6:00 all year. Its offset from UTC never moves, so its relationship to places that do change shifts twice a year instead — which is usually why someone checks. Right now it is 6 hours behind UTC, and 1 hour behind New York.

Mexico spans 6 time zones, so “the time in Mexico” depends where. Each has its own page. The IANA database lists 12 zone entries for Mexico; the others are historical splits that now keep the same clock as one of these.

Mexico City is 1 hour behind New York and 2 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 8:00 am in Mexico City.

To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.

The day is 11 hours 15 minutes long in Mexico City, and losing 1 minute a day. The sun peaks at 12:20 pm, 20 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Mexico City sits 37 minutes of solar time west of UTC−6:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

Mexico City lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around May 17 and July 26 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 13 hours 18 minutes and the shortest 10 hours 58 minutes, 141 minutes apart.

Mexico has kept UTC−6:00 since Sunday, October 30, 2022, when it moved from UTC−5:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour ahead of what they read now.

On UTC−6:00 right now, the same clock as Mexico: