| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +7h | Becomes +6h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +8h | Becomes +7h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +10h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +15h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +16h | Becomes +17h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | +2h | Becomes +1h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −1h | Becomes −2h on 1 Nov |
Acapulco, Mexico runs on UTC−6. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−6 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Acapulco and New York is 2 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 7 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–16:00 in Acapulco lines up with 11:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Acapulco and London is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–11:00 in Acapulco lines up with 16:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Acapulco and Tokyo is 15 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with Tokyo, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Mexico City, Calgary, Edmonton. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Acapulco.
Acapulco (Mexico) is home to roughly 780K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:29, sunset at 18:29. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−6 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 17° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Mexico
Capital
Mexico City
Continent
North America
Time Zone
CST · America/Mexico_City
Coordinates
16.86°N, 99.88°W
Currency
MXN ($)
Calling Code
+52
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
La Quebrada's divers have leapt from about 35 metres since the 1930s into a channel roughly 4 metres deep at high water. They have to time the jump to an incoming swell; the window is a few seconds wide.
The clock: Acapulco keeps UTC−6. It was the Pacific terminus of the Manila galleon trade, which ran between Mexico and the Philippines for 250 years.
Acapulco lies at 99.9°W. Its time zone, UTC−6, is built around the 90°W meridian. The 9.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 40 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:40 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC−6 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 13h 8m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 7m. The swing between them is 2h 1m. Inside the tropics the day length stays within a narrow band all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Acapulco the sun comes up earliest on 5 June at 06:05, while the latest sunset waits until 9 July at 19:17. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Acapulco that civil twilight runs about 22 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Acapulco, Mexico is America/Mexico_City with a current UTC offset of UTC−6.
Acapulco has an estimated population of 780K and is located at coordinates 16.86°N, 99.88°W.
Acapulco gets 13h 8m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 7m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Acapulco falls at about 12:40 on UTC−6 standard time, because the city sits 9.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Divers Who Time the Swell: La Quebrada's divers have leapt from about 35 metres since the 1930s into a channel roughly 4 metres deep at high water. They have to time the jump to an incoming swell; the window is a few seconds wide.