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9–17 in Mexico City vs UTC
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- 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
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About Mexico City
Home to roughly 9,209,944 residents, Mexico City is a major metropolitan hub in Mexico. The city sits at 2240 m above sea level, a high-altitude position that shapes its climate and air pressure.
The America/Mexico_City zone governs civic time in Mexico City; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the tropical belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (19.43°).
Mexico's currency is MXN and its calling prefix is +52. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Mexico City's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Mexico City
The current local time in Mexico City, Mexico is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Mexico City uses the IANA time zone America/Mexico_City, currently UTC−6.
Whether Mexico City 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.
Mexico City is currently 2 hours behind New York.
Mexico City is currently 7 hours behind London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Mexico City are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (19.4326, -99.1332).
Mexico uses the MXN currency and the +52 international dialing code.
Mexico City sits at 19.4326° N, 99.1332° W, 2240 m above sea level, in Mexico.