Time in Cancún now:
Timezone
Atomic clock accuracy
Difference from your location
Cancún is the same time as you
Sun
Moon
Geography
Time difference from Cancún
| City | Local time | Difference |
|---|
Working hours overlap
9–17 in Cancún vs UTC
Time converter
Type 9am, 21:00, noon, 9am tomorrow, or in 3 hours.
Next 14 days
Upcoming public holidays
- Día de la Independencia16 Sept 2026
- Día de los Difuntos2 Nov 2026
- Día de la Revolución16 Nov 2026
- Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe12 Dec 2026
- Navidad25 Dec 2026
Weather
Cities sharing this timezone
Climate & seasons
About Cancún
Home to roughly 743,626 residents, Cancún is a notable city in Mexico. Its terrain rests around 9 m of elevation.
Cancún keeps time on the America/Cancun IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. The tropical, northern-hemisphere setting at 21.16° latitude defines its day-length swing across the year — long summer evenings and shorter winter days.
Mexico's currency is MXN and its calling prefix is +52. This page exposes Cancún's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
Nearest major cities
Cities in the same timezone
— (none in dataset)
More cities in Mexico
Questions about time in Cancún
The current local time in Cancún, Mexico is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Cancún uses the IANA time zone America/Cancun, currently UTC−5.
Whether Cancún observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (America/Cancun) is the source of truth.
Cancún is currently 1 hour behind New York.
Cancún is currently 6 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Cancún are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (21.1619, -86.8515).
Mexico uses the MXN currency and the +52 international dialing code.
Cancún sits at 21.1619° N, 86.8515° W, 9 m above sea level, in Mexico.