Central Time

At a glance

IANA

America/Mexico_City

Standard offset

UTC−6 (CST)

Observes DST?

No

Countries

MX

Main cities

Mexico City, Iztapalapa, Puebla, Ecatepec de Morelos

Also known as

America/Bahia_Banderas, America/Chihuahua, America/Merida, America/Monterrey, Mexico/General

Developer snippets

// JavaScript
new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'America/Mexico_City' }).format(new Date());

// Python
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
from datetime import datetime
datetime.now(ZoneInfo('America/Mexico_City'));

// Java
java.time.ZonedDateTime.now(java.time.ZoneId.of('America/Mexico_City'));