| 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 |
Puerto Vallarta, 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 Puerto Vallarta 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 Puerto Vallarta lines up with 11:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between Puerto Vallarta 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 Puerto Vallarta lines up with 16:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between Puerto Vallarta 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 Puerto Vallarta.
Puerto Vallarta (Mexico) is home to roughly 290K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:51, sunset at 18:50. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−6 — 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
CST · America/Mexico_City
Coordinates
20.65°N, 105.22°W
Currency
MXN ($)
Calling Code
+52
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Puerto Vallarta was a village of a few thousand until 1963, when The Night of the Iguana was filmed nearby and the press descended on Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Within a decade the town had an international airport.
The clock: Puerto Vallarta keeps UTC−6, on the Jalisco side of a bay whose northern shore, in Nayarit's Bahía de Banderas municipality, has also kept Central time since 2010, although the rest of Nayarit keeps UTC−7.
Puerto Vallarta lies at 105.2°W. Its time zone, UTC−6, is built around the 90°W meridian. The 15.2° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 61 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 13:01 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 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 Puerto Vallarta the sun comes up earliest on 7 June at 06:19, while the latest sunset waits until 6 July at 19:46. 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 Puerto Vallarta 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 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico is America/Mexico_City with a current UTC offset of UTC−6.
Puerto Vallarta has an estimated population of 290K and is located at coordinates 20.65°N, 105.22°W.
Puerto Vallarta 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 Puerto Vallarta falls at about 13:01 on UTC−6 standard time, because the city sits 15.2° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Film Shoot That Made a Resort: Puerto Vallarta was a village of a few thousand until 1963, when The Night of the Iguana was filmed nearby and the press descended on Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.