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Pacific -8 | Mountain -7 | C. Juárez -7 | Central -6 |
Time Zone | Time Zone | Time Zone | Time Zone |
Pacífic Time Z. | Mountain Time Z. |
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PST = standard -8h PDT = daylight -7h |
MST = standard -7h No daylight saving |
Baja California* | Sonora |
Ensenada | Ciudad Obregón |
Mexicali ![]() |
Hermosillo ![]() |
Rosarito | Nogales |
Tecate | S.L. Rio Colorado |
Tijuana ![]() |
All the state of Sonora without daylight saving time. |
All Baja California | |
*Baja California use sumer time as US | |
Daylight Saving Baja California and US-Mexico border cities ![]() |
Mountain Time Z. | Central Time Z. |
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MST = standard -7h No daylight saving |
CST = standard -6h No daylight saving |
Baja California Sur | Chihuahua |
La Paz / Cabo San Lucas | Cuauhtémoc |
Sinaloa | Chihuahua ![]() |
Culiacán / Mazatlan | Delicias |
Nayarit* → | → Bahia de Banderas (Nayarit) |
Tepic | |
*All of Chihuahua, including Ciudad Juárez and Ojinaga, with the time change of 10/30/2022, will use the Central Zone time zone UTC -6h Note: Ciudad Juárez: On 11/30/2022 at 00:00 it returns to Mountain time UTC -7h. See MX border cities ![]() |
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*Bahía de Banderas in Nayarit, uses the Central Time Zone. |
México Central Time Zone |
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State | Capital |
Aguascalientes | Aguascalientes |
Bahia de Banderas* (Nayarit) | |
Campeche | Campeche |
Mexico City ![]() |
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Chiapas | Tuxtla Gutiérrez |
Chihuahua (* ![]() |
Chihuahua |
Coahuila (* ![]() |
Saltillo |
Colima | Colima |
Durango | Durango |
Mexico | Toluca |
Guanajuato | Guanajuato |
Guerrero | Chilpancingo |
Hidalgo | Pachuca |
Jalisco | Guadalajara |
*Bahia de Banderas of the state of Nayarit in the Mountain Zone, uses the time of the Central Zone of Mexico.
*States of Mexico with some border cities with the US, which share the time change with the US.
Mexico Eastern Time (Quintana Roo) | |||
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Quintana Roo - Cancun - Chetumal - Playa del Carmen - Cozumel... all Quintana Roo No daylight saving |
Border city between Mexico and the US. | |
Cd. Juárez (Mountain) border city with the US | Chihuahua Central Time |
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Border city | State |
Ciudad Juárez | Chihuahua |
MST = standard -7h MDT = daylight -6h Mountain Time Zone |
CST = standard -6h No daylight saving Central Time Zone |
Instead of the usual time change in November, Ciudad Juárez and Ojinaga turned back the clock 1 hour on October 30, 2022. Note: On 11/30/22 Ciudad Juárez returns to Mountain time. More info. | |
Baja California |
Pacific Time Zone - Baja California PST standard -8h ![]() PDT daylight -7h ![]() |
Daylight Saving Baja California and US-Mexico border cities ![]() |
Border cities between Mexico and the US. | |
Border cities of Central Mexico with the US | México Central Time |
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Border cities | State |
Anáhuac | Nuevo León |
Ciudad Acuña | Coahuila |
Matamoros | Tamaulipas |
Nuevo Laredo | Tamaulipas |
Ojinaga* | Chihuahua* |
Piedras Negras | Coahuila |
Reynosa | Tamaulipas |
CST = standard -6h ![]() CDT = daylight -5h ![]() Mexico Map or / Mx Border cities map ![]() |
States of the Central Zone of Mexico without daylight saving time, except the bordering cities with the US. |
*Ojinaga continues to use Daylight Saving Time but in the Central Time Zone as of 10/30/2022. *All of Chihuahua, as of 10/30/2022, will use Central Time UTC -6 (except Ciudad Juárez) which uses the Mountain Time UTC -7 in winter and UTC -6 in daylight saving time. |
All of Baja California in the (Pacific Time Zone), and the Mexico border cities with the United States, use the same time zone and daylight saving time as the US.
Pacific zone ![]() |
Mountain Zone ![]() |
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Current Local Time | Current Local Time |
Tijuana | Culiacán |
PST = standard -8h PDT = daylight -7h |
MST = standard -7h No daylight saving |
Some cities of Baja California | Sonora Mountain Time ![]() |
Daylight Saving Baja California and US-Mexico border cities ![]() |
Current Local Time |
Hermosillo | |
MST = standard -7h No daylight saving |
Central Zone ![]() |
Eastern Zone ![]() |
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Current Local Time | Current Local Time |
Mexico City | Cancún |
CST = standard -6h No daylight saving |
EST = standard -5h No daylight saving |
States and cities of Central Mexico | Some cities Quintana Roo |
Note: Sonora in the Mountain Time Zone does not use summer time.
Baja California and border cities of Mexico with the US, use daylight saving time as United States
The letters S (standard) and D (daylight), are the acronyms that show the current period of the time zone.
For example, PST Pacific standard time / PDT Pacific daylight time, plus the symbols that appear next to the clock time
Mexico* without time change 2025 | |
No dst ![]() |
No dst ![]() |
Mexico No DST |
Mexico No DST |
No daylight Saving Time | On the last Sunday in October 2022, at 2:00 a.m., turned the clock back 1 hour. (last time change) |
Time in Mexico: Pacific Time / Mountain Time / Sonora Time / Central Time / Quintana Roo Time | |
*Only Baja California and US-MX border cities use daylight saving time |
Daylight Saving 2025 Baja California and Mexico border cities with the US | |
Starts + 1h ![]() |
Ends - 1h ![]() |
March-9 Sun. 2:00 → 3:00 |
Nov.-2 Sun. 2:00 → 1:00 |
2nd Sunday in March, at 2:00 a.m., turns the clock forward 1 hour. | 1st Sunday in November, at 2:00 a.m., turns the clock back 1 hour. |
Current time and time zones in Baja California and Mexico border cities ![]() |