What time is it in Cancun?
3:19:55 PM
Wednesday, September 23, 2026 in Cancun, Mexico (Quintana Roo). UTC−5:00.
- UTC offset
- UTC−5:00
- Daylight saving
- Not observed
- Versus Mexico City
- 1 hour ahead
- Versus New York
- 1 hour behind
Why Cancun has its own time
Mexico spans 12 time zones, so the answer depends on where in it you mean. Cancun covers quintana roo and is 1 hour ahead Mexico City, which is the zone most people mean by “the time in Mexico”.
Cancun does not observe daylight saving, so its offset from UTC never moves. Its relationship to places that do change shifts twice a year instead.
The other zones in Mexico
- Mexico City2:19 pm · UTC−6:00
- Cancun — here3:19 pm · UTC−5:00
- Merida2:19 pm · UTC−6:00
- Monterrey2:19 pm · UTC−6:00
- Matamoros3:19 pm · UTC−5:00
- Chihuahua2:19 pm · UTC−6:00
- Ciudad Juarez2:19 pm · UTC−6:00
- Ojinaga3:19 pm · UTC−5:00
- Mazatlan1:19 pm · UTC−7:00
- Bahia Banderas2:19 pm · UTC−6:00
- Hermosillo1:19 pm · UTC−7:00
- Tijuana1:19 pm · UTC−7:00