Time difference between Mexico City and Chicago

Chicago is 1 hour ahead of Mexico City

Mexico City, Mexico is UTC−6 · Chicago, the United States 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 Mexico City does not change its clocks and Chicago goes forward on the second Sunday in March and back on the first Sunday in November.

Mexico City stays put all year while Chicago moves, so the gap changes twice a year from Chicago's side alone. A recurring meeting set in Mexico City's calendar will drift by an hour without anyone touching it.

About Mexico City and Chicago

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.

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.

When they can both be at their desks

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

Mexico City to Chicago, hour by hour

On the usual gap of 1 hour.

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Other pairs

• Mexico City to Denver
• Mexico City to Los Angeles
• Mexico City to Vancouver
• Mexico City to Anchorage
• Mexico City to Honolulu
• Mexico City to São Paulo
• Mexico City to Buenos Aires
• Mexico City to Lima
• Mexico City to Lagos
• Mexico City to Johannesburg

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