Time difference between New York and Mexico City

Mexico City is 2 hours behind New York

New York, the United States is UTC−5 · 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 New York 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 New York moves, so a meeting fixed in Mexico City's calendar shifts by an hour twice a year at New York's end.

When they can both be at their desks

Nine-to-five in both cities overlaps for 6 hours — 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM in New York, the same moment as 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM in Mexico City.

New York to Mexico City, hour by hour

On the usual gap of 2 hours.

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