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- Día de la Revolución16 Nov 2026
- Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe12 Dec 2026
- Navidad25 Dec 2026
- Año Nuevo1 Jan 2027
- Día de la Constitución1 Feb 2027
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About Guadalajara
Home to roughly 1,495,182 residents, Guadalajara is a mid-sized urban centre in Mexico. Its terrain rests around 1566 m of elevation, giving the area cooler nights than its latitude alone would suggest.
For computers and clocks, Guadalajara is anchored to the America/Mexico_City time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the tropical belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (20.66°).
Visitors will find prices listed in MXN; phones reach Mexico via the +52 country code. Beyond the live clock, every datapoint on this page — sun events, holidays, time-zone offsets — is also available as machine-readable JSON, ready for agents and integrations.
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Questions about time in Guadalajara
The current local time in Guadalajara, Mexico is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Guadalajara uses the IANA time zone America/Mexico_City, currently UTC−6.
Whether Guadalajara observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (America/Mexico_City) is the source of truth.
Guadalajara is currently 1 hour behind New York.
Guadalajara is currently 6 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Guadalajara are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (20.6597, -103.3496).
Mexico uses the MXN currency and the +52 international dialing code.
Guadalajara sits at 20.6597° N, 103.3496° W, 1566 m above sea level, in Mexico.