| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00Thu | +6h | Becomes +5h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00Thu | +7h | Becomes +6h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00Thu | +9h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00Thu | +14h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00Thu | +15h | Becomes +16h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00 | +1h | Becomes ±0h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00 | −2h | Becomes −3h on 1 Nov |
Playa del Carmen, Mexico runs on UTC−5. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−5 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Playa del Carmen and New York is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–17:00 in Playa del Carmen lines up with 10:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Playa del Carmen and London is 6 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 3 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–12:00 in Playa del Carmen lines up with 15:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Playa del Carmen and Tokyo is 14 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 Bogotá, Lima, Quito. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Playa del Carmen.
Playa del Carmen (Mexico) is home to roughly 300K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:39, sunset at 18:37. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−5 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 21° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Mexico
Capital
Mexico City
Continent
North America
Time Zone
EST · America/Cancun
Coordinates
20.63°N, 87.07°W
Currency
MXN ($)
Calling Code
+52
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Playa del Carmen grew from a fishing village of around 3,000 people in 1990 to over 300,000, one of the fastest growth rates recorded in Latin America. It was a ferry stop for Cozumel and very little else.
The clock: Playa del Carmen keeps UTC−5 with Quintana Roo, which broke from the rest of Mexico in 2015 to align with the US east coast.
Playa del Carmen lies at 87.1°W. Its time zone, UTC−5, is built around the 75°W meridian. The 12.1° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 48 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:48 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC−5 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 13h 23m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 53m. The swing between them is 2h 30m. 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 Playa del Carmen the sun comes up earliest on 7 June at 06:07, while the latest sunset waits until 6 July at 19:33. 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 Playa del Carmen 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 Playa del Carmen, Mexico is America/Cancun with a current UTC offset of UTC−5.
Playa del Carmen has an estimated population of 300K and is located at coordinates 20.63°N, 87.07°W.
Playa del Carmen gets 13h 23m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 53m on its shortest, averaging 12h 9m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Playa del Carmen falls at about 12:48 on UTC−5 standard time, because the city sits 12.1° from the meridian its zone is built on.
One of the Fastest-Growing Cities in the Americas: Playa del Carmen grew from a fishing village of around 3,000 people in 1990 to over 300,000, one of the fastest growth rates recorded in Latin America. It was a ferry stop for Cozumel and very little else.