Time difference between Chicago and Mexico City

Mexico City is 1 hour behind Chicago

Chicago, the United States is UTC−6 · Mexico City, Mexico is UTC−6 — on standard time

The gap is not the same all year

Every converter gives one number for this pair. That number is right for most of the year and wrong for part of it, because Chicago goes forward on the second Sunday in March and back on the first Sunday in November and Mexico City does not change its clocks.

Mexico City stays put all year while Chicago moves, so a meeting fixed in Mexico City's calendar shifts by an hour twice a year at Chicago's end.

About Chicago and Mexico City

Chicago is UTC−6 in winter, the US Central zone, and the one people most often mean by an unqualified "CST" — a reading that collides with China Standard Time fourteen hours the other way.

Mexico abolished daylight saving in October 2022, so Mexico City sits at UTC−6 all year. It used to move with the US and no longer does, which means every gap to a US city now changes twice a year from the US side alone.

When they can both be at their desks

Nine-to-five in both cities overlaps for 7 hours — 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM in Chicago, the same moment as 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM in Mexico City.

Chicago to Mexico City, hour by hour

On the usual gap of 1 hour.

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