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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 - Ciudad de México | |
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 some US and Mexico border cities, use the same time 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 |
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 2024 | |
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 2024 Baja California and Mexico border cities with the US | |
Starts + 1h | Ends - 1h |
March-10 Sun. 2:00 → 3:00 |
Nov.-3 Sun. 2:00 → 1:00 |
On the second Sunday in March, at 2:00 a.m., turns the clock forward 1 hour. | On the first 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 |