| 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 |
San Luis Potosí, 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 San Luis Potosí 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 San Luis Potosí lines up with 11:00–18:00 in New York. The time difference between San Luis Potosí 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 San Luis Potosí lines up with 16:00–18:00 in London. The time difference between San Luis Potosí 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 San Luis Potosí.
San Luis Potosí (Mexico) is home to roughly 830K people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:35, sunset at 18:32. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC−6 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 22° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Mexico
Capital
Mexico City
Continent
North America
Time Zone
CST · America/Mexico_City
Coordinates
22.16°N, 100.98°W
Currency
MXN ($)
Calling Code
+52
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Spanish
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Las Pozas, built by the English poet Edward James from 1949 to 1984 near Xilitla, is around 32 hectares of concrete surrealist structures — staircases to nowhere, doorways in mid-air — set in subtropical rainforest.
The clock: San Luis Potosí keeps UTC−6. The state's silver mines were among the richest in New Spain.
San Luis Potosí lies at 101.0°W. Its time zone, UTC−6, is built around the 90°W meridian. The 11.0° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 44 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:44 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 29m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 47m. The swing between them is 2h 43m. 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 San Luis Potosí the sun comes up earliest on 8 June at 05:59, while the latest sunset waits until 5 July at 19:32. 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 San Luis Potosí 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 San Luis Potosí, Mexico is America/Mexico_City with a current UTC offset of UTC−6.
San Luis Potosí has an estimated population of 830K and is located at coordinates 22.16°N, 100.98°W.
San Luis Potosí gets 13h 29m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 47m on its shortest, averaging 12h 9m a day across the year.
Solar noon in San Luis Potosí falls at about 12:44 on UTC−6 standard time, because the city sits 11.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Surrealist Garden in the Jungle: Las Pozas, built by the English poet Edward James from 1949 to 1984 near Xilitla, is around 32 hectares of concrete surrealist structures — staircases to nowhere, doorways in mid-air — set in subtropical rainforest.